Responsibility Quotes

"It's not about giving back if you're successful or a celebrity or how much money you have: it's about your responsibility as an adult to help others."

- Trisha Yearwood

"If you have an opportunity to help others or incite change, it feels like a moral obligation to do so."

- Elizabeth Chambers

"I believe that in this new world that we live in, we often have a responsibility, you know, to actually go beyond the thou shalt nots - that is, the not harming others - and say we can help others and we should be helping others."

- Peter Singer

"We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need."

- Virginia Williams

"Let us ask ourselves, 'What kind of people do we think we are?' And let us answer, 'Free people, worthy of freedom and determined not only to remain so but to help others gain their freedom as well.'"

- Ronald Reagan

"Past the beggar and the suffering walks he who asks, 'Why, oh God, do you not do something for these people?' To which God replied, 'I did do something, I made you.'"

- Sufi saying

"The world needs our mothers."

- Liya Kebede

"If you bungle raising your children, I don’t think whatever else you do well matters very much."

- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

"Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"If we’re going to have animals around, we all have to be concerned about them and take care of them."

- Bob Ross

"We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves"

- Peter Singer

"Animals are sentient, intelligent, perceptive, funny and entertaining. We owe them a duty of care as we do to children."

- Michael Morpurgo

"I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs."

- James Herriot

"The animals are right here, right in front of us. And how we treat these companions is a test."

- Linda Blair

"I don't believe in 'ownership' of a sentient life - I think we undertake volitional guardianship and that this bringing forth can be one of the most rewarding and reciprocally loving relationships that a human being can ever experience."

- Noel Fitzpatrick

"Above anything else—above family or job—the main thing is staying sober. That’s because without being sober, I don’t have a family or a job."

- William Regal

"I attribute my success to this - I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong, are 'accept responsibility.’"

- Billie Jean King

""I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.""

- Stephen Covey

"If you perform the sacrifice of doing your duty, you do not have to do anything else. Devoted to duty, man attains perfection."

- Bhagavad Gita

"Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself."

- Joseph Campbell

"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."

- J. Michael Straczynski

"Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth... these are one and the same fight. We must connect the dots between climate change, water scarcity, energy shortages, global health, food security and women's empowerment. Solutions to one problem must be solutions for all."

- Ban Ki-moon

"Don’t let your mouth write no check that your tail can’t cash."

- Bo Diddley

"The way to stop financial joyriding is to arrest the chauffeur, not the automobile."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Every time you borrow money, you’re robbing your future self."

- Nathan W. Morris

"Your exemplary commitment over the years has been pivotal to this company’s success."

"You’re not responsible for your disease, but you are responsible for your behavior."

"Being an older sibling is a big task... keeping you safe, guiding you, and annoying you just the right amount. Love ya, little bro!"

- Unknown

"Being a big sister and role model was the most important job I could have, thanks for keeping me on my toes!"

- Unknown