Responsibility Quotes - Page 15

• All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.

  John C. Maxwell

  Numbers, Discipline, Leader

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• Unrequited love may be painful, but it is safely painful, because it does not involve inflicting damage on anyone but oneself, a private pain that is as bittersweet as it is self-induced. But as soon as love is reciprocated, one must be prepared to give up the passivity of simply being hurt and take on the responsibility of perpetrating hurt oneself.

  Alain de Botton

  Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2006). “On Love: A Novel”, p.45, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• African people need to stop shouting 'nationtime' until they are clear about the responsibilities of running a nation.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Running, People, Needs

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• By all means, let us simplify the means of controlling time and the myriad details of our lives, but let us vigorously preserve our responsibility to direct our lives toward human accomplishment, rather than the pure accumulation of information.

  Paul Rice

  Mean, Accomplishment, Details

  Paul Rice (1989). “Timesource”, Ten Speed Pr

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• There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

  Frederick Salomon Perls

  Movement, Gains, Emotion

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• Certainly, old age is often incompatible with certain roles and responsibilities.

  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  Age, Roles, Certain

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• The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

  Bill Gates

  Fighting, Government, Support

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• Get the process of negotiation away from the small specialized group that some people have called the "nuclear theologians" ... Only a few people can understand the nature of these weapons ... This kept the whole discussion to a very limited group of people who, in a way, had assumed responsibility for saying whether we should live or die.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  People, Nuclear, Weapons

  "Quest for Peace: an Introduction". Book by John Whiteley, 1986.

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• The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was responsible go too far out of line.

  Clyde Kluckhohn

  Humble, Mean, Practice

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• Every right is married to a duty; every freedom owes a corresponding responsibility; and there cannot be genuine freedom unless there exists also genuine order, in the moral realm and in the social realm.

  Russell Kirk

  Order, Moral, Married

  Russell Kirk (1996). “Redeeming the Time”, Isi Books

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• All People and things are interdependent. The world has become so small that no nation can solve its problems alone, in isolation from others. That is why I believe we must all cultivate a sense of responsibility based on love and compassion for each other.

  Dalai Lama

  Believe, Compassion, People

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• True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Feelings, Scope

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• I am not responsible for the successful working of the machinery of society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Independence, Responsible

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

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• I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Believe, Book, Wish

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• And to those people with no children but who think they'd like to have them some day to fulfill their lives. Remember: With fulfillment comes responsibility.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Thinking, People

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Lonely, Spirit, Photograph

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• Inspectors do not have the duty or the ability to uncover terrible weapons hidden in a vast country. The responsibility of inspectors is simply to confirm evidence of voluntary and total disarmament. Saddam Hussein has the responsibility to provide that evidence, as directed, and in full

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Country, Hussein, Weapons

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• Move decisions out to the Cabinet and agencies. Strengthen them by moving responsibility, authority, and accountability their direction.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Moving, Agency, Decision

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• The best food storage is not in welfare grain elevators but in sealed cans and bottles in the homes of our people. What a gratifying thing it is to see cans of wheat and rice and beans under the beds or in the pantries of women who have taken welfare responsibility into their own hands. Such food may not be tasty, but it will be nourishing if it has to be used.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Taken, Home, Hands

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• I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Eye, People, Trying

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• Professional land surveyors take on a lot of responsibility, and should be compensated appropriately.

  Mark Mason

  Land, Should, Surveyors

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I think I would co-direct because I love actors and I've got a very good eye. I'm not a second-guesser. I don't think that I would be very happy, getting inundated by financial issues. I would love to co-direct with somebody because that would be a real freedom and an adventure, and then I could leave all the pain and misery to them. I'm not glib about it. I would take the responsibility to make a really good movie.

  Lance Henriksen

  Pain, Real, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  People, Smoking, Creative

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I've voted for Republicans who were strong on defense, who believed in a free and open economy but who also understood that there's a place for government in our lives, that government has a responsibility to those of our citizens who are in need and those of our citizens who are needy of health care.

  Colin Powell

  Strong, Government, Citizens

  "Interview With Former Secretary Of State Colin Powell". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. September 2, 2011.

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• Most of the people in the workforce today will spend some years when they also have children and family responsibilities.

  Betty Friedan

  Children, Years, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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