Quotes About Responsibility

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

No matter how complex global problems may seem, it is we ourselves who have given rise to them. They cannot be beyond our power to resolve

I think it's my responsibility, to speak up when something threatens our very future.

Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.

When I look at the world it fills me with sorrow, little children today are really going to suffer tomorrow.

When you have kids, you start thinking about their future and you forget about yours.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

We should also start taking care of the future, not just the heritage.

Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.

We need a new environmental consciousness on a global basis. To do this, we need to educate people.

Architects today tend to depreciate themselves, to regard themselves as no more than just ordinary citizens without the power to reform the future.

We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.

The Fuhrer alone is the present and future German reality and its law. Learn to know ever more deeply: from now on every single thing demands decision, and every action responsibility.

The major key to your better future is you.

The purpose of the law is not to prevent a future offense, but to punish the one actually committed.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

Human beings, joined in collaboration with the gifts of grace, are responsible for the planet and its future.

I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.

We are a people. A people do not throw their geniuses away. If they do, it is our duty as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children. If necessary, bone by bone.

As far as I'm concerned, however, it is clear that the concept of premium will be increasingly defined through sustainability in the future.

I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.

Kids don't make up 100 percent of our population, but they do make up 100 percent of our future.