responsibility Quotes

“Every one has his superstitions. One of mine is that in positions of great responsibility every one should do his duty to the best of his ability where assigned by competent authority, without application or the use of influence to change his...”

― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

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“In times like the present men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and in eternity.”

― Abraham Lincoln, State of the Union Address

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“CORPORATION, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually.”

― 14th Dalai Lama, Nobel Lecture

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“We must regain the conviction that we need one another, that we have a shared responsibility for others and the world, and that being good and decent are worth it.”

― Pope Francis, Laudato si'

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“I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir . . . because I'm not myself, you see.”

― Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

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“Remember, you have been given absolute power to bind and to loose, but the greater the power, the more terrible its responsibility.”

― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

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“If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”

― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

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“Only the mistakes have been mine.”

― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X

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“And by that destiny to perform an actWhereof what's past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.”

― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

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