Responsible Person Quotes:

A responsible person is one who responds.

- Corita Kent

topic: Responsible, Responsible Person, Persons

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Believe, Responsibility, Exercise, Responsible Person

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Wisdom, Responsibility, Pants, Blaming Others, Inspirational Presidential

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Running, Philosophy, Believe, Self Determination, Make Your Own Choices

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

- Martin Luther

topic: Responsibility, Responsible, Reformation, Responsible Person

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

- Colin Powell

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Mean, Being Responsible, Responsible Person

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

- William Bennett

source: William J. Bennett (1993). “The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories”, Simon and Schuster

topic: Taken, Responsibility, People, Responsible Person

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

- Ann Patchett

source: Source: www.guernicamag.com

topic: Husband, Writing, Political, Bad Friend, Responsible Person

I have the lived experience of a Black man in America, also raising Black kids, but I also have the lived experience of being a responsible person who is responsible for the resourcing and the outfitting of a law enforcement agency.

- Andrew Gillum

source: Source: www.truth-out.org

topic: Kids, Men, America, Responsible Person

There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.67, Vintage

topic: Guilt, May, Shame, Being Responsible, Responsible Person

The responsible person seeks to make his whole life a response to the question and call of God.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

topic: Responsible, Whole Life, Response, Responsible Person

I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.

- John Lewis

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Thinking, United States, Doe, Responsible Person

Who stands firm? Only the one for whom the final standard is not his reason, his principles, his conscience, his freedom, his virtue, but who is ready to sacrifice all these, when in faith and sole allegiance to God he is called to obedient and responsible action: the responsible person, whose life will be nothing but an answer to God's question and call.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1966). “I Loved this People: Testimonies of Responsibility”, London : S.P.C.K.

topic: Sacrifice, Answers, Principles, Responsible Person, Stand Firm

I'm the ultimately responsible person in this organization. Other people can pass the buck to me, but I can't pass the buck to anyone else.

- Harry S. Truman

topic: Organization, People, History, Responsible Person

I can't imagine any reasonably responsible person arguing against the abortion of mongols ... If we could tell what foetuses are going to be affected with cancer in their 40s and 50s, I would be for aborting them now.

- Cecil Jacobson

topic: Cancer, Abortion, Would Be, Mongols, Responsible Person

... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with one another, economic, social, cultural. Economic determinism is an objectionable creed where men and women espouse it in its communist or capitalist form because it treats human beings as economic units and not as responsible persons.

- Davis McCaughey

topic: Leadership, Men, Ideas, Dealings, Moral Decisions

What I see in Nature is a grand design that we can understand only imperfectly, one with which a responsible person must look at with humility.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Humility, Design, Looks, Responsible Person

There must be no majority decisions, but only responsible persons, and the word 'council' must be restored to its original meaning. Surely every man will have advisers by his side, but the decision will be made by one man.

- Adolf Hitler

source: Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

topic: Military, Men, Decision, Responsible Person, Mein Kampf

I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.

- Lauryn Hill

source: "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

topic: Daughter, Mother, Successful, Another Opportunity, Responsible Person

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

- Vijay Seshadri

source: "You Are Vijay Seshadri". Interview with Laura Standley, logger.believermag.com. June 10, 2014.

topic: Writing, Emotional, Citizens, Responsible Person

To be a responsible person is to find one's role in the building of shalom, the re-webbing of God, humanity and all creation in justice, harmony, fulfillment and delight. To be a responsible person is to find one's own role and then, funded by the grace of God, to fill this role and to delight in it.

- Cornelius Plantinga

topic: Justice, Humanity, Grace, Shalom, Responsible Person

Practically, the desirable situation ought to be one in which any reasonably responsible person willing to accept available employment can find a job paying a living wage within 48 hours.

- William Vickrey

topic: Jobs, Employment, Hours, 48 Hours, Responsible Person