Quotes About Responsibility

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets.

It would be tedious to continue piling example upon example, statistic upon statistic. For at a certain point, a feeling of deep lethargy sets in, and our reaction is: 'What's the use?' or 'What can one man possibly do?' If we respond in this manner, we are lost. For it is precisely by shifting problems from the trivial to the tragic plane, by forsaking a personal view for a cosmic one, that we rationalize and manage to shrug off our own personal responsibility.

There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them.

You are responsible for what you put into the world.

You never depend only on yourself, you never live only for yourself, and you have to realize that our most intimate thought, that we most own, is bound by a thousand bonds to that of the world. And he who speaks, he who writes is essentially someone speaking for all those who are voiceless.

He who does not cry out the truth when he knows the truth becomes the accomplice of the liars and falsifiers.

Hoy corresponde a los poderes públicos de los estados de derecho esforzarse en poner las condiciones que hagan posible para todo individuo conquistar la felicidad.

Blame has no face. I have walked on its staircase, around and around, trying to slap its face but only hitting my own cheeks.

My mother did so much for me. What I returned to her were empty containers.

I found bossing other people about such a delightful novelty that I had to remind myself of Lord Acton's famous axiom about its tendency to corrupt.

A system is only as effective as your level of commitment to it.

He who fails to know his real and true competitor shall never be able to give a good account of his stewardship in life! Your true and real competitor is your real and true solemn duty to your Maker!

He was strict and hard and had perfectly clear and definite ideas about duty, where the others were concerned. For oneself one can always find circumstances that alter cases

If there is no case to take care of, then you will take care to create a case to take care of. Otherwise your system becomes useless.

We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.

The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste.

The beauty of golf, you're in charge out here.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

If we want liberation, we must rewrite the Sleeping Beauty myth. No one is coming and no one else is to blame.