Responsibility Quotes

"Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place."

- Natalie Portman

"Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt."

- Henrik Ibsen

"Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door."

- Charles Dickens

"If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?"

- Hillel the Elder

"There is only one boss: the customer. And he can fire everybody in the company, from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

- Sam Walton

""For in this modern world, the instruments of warfare are not solely for waging war. Far more importantly, they are the means for controlling peace. Naval officers must therefore understand not only how to fight a war, but how to use the tremendous power which they operate to sustain a world of liberty and justice, without unleashing the powerful instruments of destruction and chaos that they have at their command.""

- Admiral Arleigh Burke

"We try to save as many people as we can. Sometimes that doesn’t mean everybody, but if we can’t find a way to live with that, next time maybe nobody gets saved."

- Steve Rogers

"If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does."

- The Duchess

"Everybody, every human being has the obligation to contribute somehow to this world."

- Edith Carter

"Holocaust Museum Houston has a sacred task – to ensure that what happened never happens again."

- Joan and Stanford Alexander

"It is our responsibility to inspire future generations to stand up against hatred, prejudice, and evil."

- Kisha and Jason Itkin

"Whoever listens to a witness, becomes a witness."

- Elie Wiesel

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe."

- Elie Wiesel

"Tell me I have to be somewhere, and I'll be there 20 minutes early and stay there longer than anybody else. You hold up a lot of people if you're not on time."

- Dolly Parton

"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."

- Elie Wiesel

"Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible."

- Viktor Frankl

"For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory."

- Elie Wiesel

"We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."

- Elie Wiesel

"Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men or women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe."

- Elie Wiesel

"Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander."

- Yehuda Bauer

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."

- Martin Niemöller

"Understand that one day you will have the power to make a difference, so use it well."

- Mindy Kaling

"Only the strongest shoulders can carry the hopes of a nation."

- Katie Taylor

"If you fail to prepare, you've prepared to fail."

- Mark Spitz

"It's gotta be done"

- Bandit

"One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can’t pay back."

- Jesse Jones

"Where you live should not determine whether you live, or whether you die."

- Bono

"A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Nathan W. Morris

"It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society."

- Ron Lewis