Responsibility Quotes - Page 31

All the shrewdness of 'man' seeks one thing: to be able to live without responsibility.

Put no faith in salvation through the political order.

The more people that are afraid when they see new creation, the happier I am. I think the media has some responsibility to bear for people becoming more conservative. Many parts of the media have created the situation where uninteresting fashion can thrive.

Be compassionate, and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be so much a better place.

An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives—to become increasingly self-directed

An abuser can seem emotionally needy. You can get caught in a trap of catering to him, trying to fill a bottomless pit. But he's not so much needy as entitled, so no matter how much you give him, it will never be enough. He will just keep coming up with more demands because he believes his needs are your responsibility, until you feel drained down to nothing.

In any society, the artist has a responsibility. His effectiveness is certainly limited and a painter or writer cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of non-conformity alive. Thanks to them the powerful can never affirm that everyone agrees with their acts. That small difference is important.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder … whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" … The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.

Political action is the highest responsibility of a citizen.

We can all learn that we can take full responsibility for what thoughts we are thinking and what emotional circuitry we are feeling. Knowing this and acting on this can lead us into feeling a wonderful sense of well-being and peacefulness.

There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.

A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands.

People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Our responsibility begins with our imagination.

In order to be able to make and keep commitments... to enduring, intimate relationships... you need to be a certain kind of person. You need to be a powerful person. Powerful people take responsibility for their lives and choices. Powerful people choose who they want to be with, what they are going to pursue in life, and how they are going to go after it.

We have a responsibility to look after our planet. It is our only home.

I can think of no greater God-given responsibility we have than that of extending a helping hand to our fellow man.

But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt, we've got to try and stop 'em, but mostly what the rest of us should be concerning ourselves with is doing right by others. Every time you do a good turn, you shine the light a little further into the dark. And the thing is, even when we're gone, that light's going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

Your success doesn't depend on anybody else but you.

We have a responsibility to be aware of others.

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.

The last thing my father told me was: 'On your way up, take me up. On your way down, don't let me down.' A father telling his son that puts some responsibility on my shoulders. He told me that, and I take it very seriously.