Best 376 quotes in «responsible quotes» category

It is unfair to suppose that one party has invariably acted rightly, and that the other is responsible for every wrong that has been committed.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.

It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

It's much worse to see a woman drunk than a man: I don't know quite why this is true but it just is. Don't ever be responsible for it.

I used so much hairspray that I feel personally responsible for global warming!

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

It's their deliberate, disgusting, revolting conduct that is responsible for the disease

It was my sister Maureen who was responsible for my becoming a Reagan.

I've been around responsible gun ownership my whole life.

I've always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know, because you're not responsible for your gift, only for what you do with it.

I would say that God custom designed my weaknesses. I am not making God responsible for my sins.

I was never afraid of failure. I realized that I was responsible for my own success and that every day offers a new beginning and I was confident in my ability to improve.

I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.

I work a seventeen hour day, and I'm personally responsible for 108 staff members in the embassy.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.

[James] Baldwin explained that you have your own history, and that you cannot be responsible, for example, for slavery.

Managers are, and should be, totally responsible for recognizing individual strengths (both natural talents and skills), getting those strengths in proper alignment (i.e. in the right "seats"), and then leveraging them.

Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Man stands alone in the universe, responsible for his condition, likely to remain in a lowly state, but free to reach above the stars.

Managers are responsible for setting workplace policies under which teachers can succeed. Managers are responsible for negotiating contracts that create the conditions under which teachers can succeed.

My intellect has always been more responsible than my emotions for how I respond to the world.

Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings.

More than in any other human relationship, overwhelmingly more, motherhood means being instantly interruptible, responsive, and responsible

Mostly the problems when I was down were caused by myself. There were times when I was not responsible enough or decisive enough.

My dad's been responsible for a lot of my issues.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

My overall recommendation: for decades corporate policy manuals and HR departments have told people they are responsible for their own careers. It's about time people really heeded those warnings.

My parents telling me that if there is a story you feel compelled to share, then you are responsible for doing that. You can't ask someone else to take on that story - or you can, but you have to deal with whatever the fallout is. If the story doesn't end up being told the way you originally heard it or that you feel it needs to be expressed, that's on you.

My sister is as responsible for anyone for giving me good taste in music.

No architect is held responsible for the behavior of those who inhabit the structure he designed.

Now for the first time, you can choose yourself. You can be responsible for what you do and how you do it. You have to do the hard work of finding and pleasing an audience.

Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.

Obviously, I'm a little more responsible these days.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

Once we know and are aware, we are responsible for our action and our inaction. We can do something about it or ignore it. Either way, we are still responsible.

Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity.

Once you are my friend, I am responsible for you.

Once you realize you're a spiritual being, you see life so differently. You respect things. You're more responsible to yourself and others.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

One must always be aware, to notice even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

One's own karma, one's own actions are responsible to come to bring either happiness or success or whatever.

One has to wait without impatience for what should come, and yet at the same time do everything within one's power as though one were impatient and as though one were solely responsible.

One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be.