responsibility Quotes

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

I dread the promotion part of my job. It's agony, especially compared to the private, at-home joy of writing. But being a grown-up means doing every part of the larger task.

I think that I am responsible for the death of thousands of things and for the misery of thousands of people, just through the things that I buy and how I live my life, and these are not things that ever deserved to die.