2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.

If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

He turned to her - his gesture a superb compound of relief, remorse, passionate candour and bewilderment touched with curiosity; confidence and perfect penitence. Against which Scylla had to brace herself. Against such bravura how dull truth seemed, and difficult to access. Never had the bottom of a well seemed less attractive. She must hear him first. She could go down later.

The integrity of the society is predicated on the sacrifice of a handful of lionhearts and on the everyday accountability of the rest of the humans.

Ordinary men earns responsibility towards their family, extraordinary men earns duty towards their nation.

You are responsible for doing what good you can with what you have, and any good is better than none.

Responsibility and duty are different things, you can sacrifice your responsibility for your duty but you cannot sacrifice your duty for your responsibility.

Wir lernen aus unserer eigenen Geschichte, wozu der Mensch fähig ist. Deshalb dürfen wir uns nicht einbilden, wir seien nun als Menschen anders und besser geworden. Es gibt keine endgültig errungene moralische Vollkommenheit - für niemanden und kein Land! Wir haben als Menschen gelernt, wir bleiben als Menschen gefährdet. Aber wir haben die Kraft, Gefährdungen immer von neuem zu überwinden."[Ansprache am 8. Mai 1985 in der Gedenkstunde im Plenarsaal des Deutschen Bundestages]