Quotes About Responsibility

When you have a voice, you also have a moral obligation to use that voice for good.

It was just the DNA of my family. Giving back didn't feel like an entitlement; it was an obligation.

A coldly rationalist individualist can deny that he has any obligation to make sacrifices for the future.

My whole obligation was to West Indies cricket. As I have always said, I have never made a run for me. Records meant nothing. The team was important.

A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend.

If an individual is born with the obligation to obey, who is born with the right to command?

Where we have been incorrect in what we have done, then I think we have an obligation to settle.

Of course it's why you want to become a writer - because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

Daley may not feel a moral responsibility to eliminate discrimination but he has a legal obligation to do so.

He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.

I believe the artist has an obligation to society.

I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it.

I think celebrities have an obligation to the public to not just sing or act.

I have an obligation to try to live as long as I can for my family.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

I think most actors feel an obligation to do right by the people they're playing.

I think the man who eats the bread of idleness is under a certain obligation to speak well of labor.

Having got the best of education myself, I firmly believe it is my personal obligation to give back to the community.

I don't apologize for looking after New Jersey's interests. That's an obligation that I'll always keep.

I was returned to the Senate by the people of Alaska, and I have an obligation to all of them - it's not an obligation to my party; it's an obligation to Alaskans.

There are things that need to be said... and I think it's my obligation to say them.

I was raised in, and presumably to, the cutlery business. I really didn't think that that's what I wanted to do for a career. But I felt a certain obligation to give it a try.

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