Quotes about Responsibility
The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.
— Samuel Johnson
To be a mother is the greatest vocation in the world. No being has a position of such great power and influence. She holds in her hands the destiny of nations, for to her is necessarily committed the making of the nation's citizens.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
— Rose Kennedy
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.
— Clayton M. Christensen
I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.
— Akio Toyoda
It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.
— Angela Duckworth
Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
— Calvin Coolidge
How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.
— Helen Keller
Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.
— Mahatma Gandhi
In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".
— Pope John Paul II
Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
— Pope John Paul II