We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us. — Michelle Obama
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. — Dalai Lama
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. — Erik H. Erickson
Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. — Nicolas Cage
A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness — Dalai Lama
Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it. — Carrie Underwood
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. — Arnold J. Toynbee
Go beyond yourself and reach out to other people with a sincere love, respect, caring, and understanding of their needs. — Susan Polis Schutz
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations. — Blythe Danner
Short Responsibility To Others Quotes
The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others. — Louisa May Alcott
That’s my responsibility — to rise and help others rise. — Martyn Ford
When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act. — Barack Obama
Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being. — Kahlil Gibran
Our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet. — Barack Obama
If we fail to look after others when they need help, who will look after us? — Buddha
The wiser course is to think of others when pursuing our own happiness. — Dalai Lama
A life not lived for others is not a life. — Mother Teresa
To my mind, having a care and concern for others is the highest of the human qualities. — Fred Hollows
Top 10 Responsibility To Others Quotes
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — Richard P. Feynman
Frederick Herzberg, asserts that the powerful motivator in our lives isn't money; it's the opportunity to learn, grow in responsibilities, contribute to others, and be recognized for achievements. — Frederick Herzberg
To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself. — Marie Forleo
Everyone says they want community and friendship. But mention accountability or commitment to people, and they run the other way. — Timothy Keller
Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others. — Joan D. Chittister
The more we pray, the more we think to pray, and as we see the results of prayer-the responses of our Father to our requests-our confidence in God's power spills over into other areas of our life. — Dallas Willard
Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful. — Amy Goodman
I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift. — Kevin Spacey
Drop face, soft belly. The face is usually wearing a mask to signal to others. The belly is often chronically tensed in a fight-or-flight response. — Naval Ravikant
Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life. — Dalai Lama
How you make others feel about themselves says a lot about you.
When You Do For Others Quotes
Do not be afraid of your difficulties.Do not wish you could be in other circumstances than you are. For when you have made the best of an adversity, it becomes the stepping stone to a splendid opportunity. — H. P. Blavatsky
When you're good to yourself, you're actually being good to everyone around you because when you feel good, you'll only react well to other people. At the same time, it's very easy for you to do things for other people when you know that other people are just an extension of yourself. — Anita Moorjani
It is difficult to recognize true love, the one which you feel for the other person, when for years the girls, even more than one per night, after concerts would sneak in our beds and were willing to do everything - group sex also - just to stay with Anthony Kiedis and the Red Hot. — Anthony Kiedis
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say. — Jules Renard
De-radicalization begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches. — Maajid Nawaz
If you continue to blame other people for “making” you feel guilty, they still have power over you, and you are saying that you will only feel good when they stop doing that. You are giving them control over your life. Stop blaming other people. — Henry Cloud
The less you respond to negative people, the more peaceful your life will become.
Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test. — William James
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: "Do you know who will go first on the Day of Resurrection to the shade of God...Those who when given what is right accept it, when asked for something give freely and who judge in favor of others as they do for themselves." — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Negative emotions are a call to action. When you feel them, it’s because you’re supposed to do something. Positive emotions, on the other hand, are rewards for taking the proper action. — Mark Manson
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. — N. D. Kalu
Consideration For Others Quotes
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. — Simone Weil
The object of our forest policy is not to preserve the forests because they are beautiful-or because they are refuges for the wild creatures of the wilderness-but the making of prosperous homes-every other consideration becomes secondary. — Gifford Pinchot
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. — A. A. Milne
A true leader has the confidence to stand alone, the courage to make tough decisions, and the compassion to listen to the needs of others.
The dinner table is the center for the teaching and practicing not just of table manners but of conversation, consideration, tolerance, family feeling, and just about all the other accomplishments of polite society except the minuet. — Judith Martin
Good manners reflect something from inside-an innate sense of consideration for others and respect for self. — Emily Post
People talk about random acts of kindness, and that goes back to the measure of being gentlemanly again. It's about having consideration for others, and not expecting anything back. That's the difference. — Simon Baker
Be brave enough to live the life of your dreams according to your vision and and purpose instead of the expectations and opinions of others.
We may be excused for not always being bright, but we are not excused for not being gracious, yielding and considerate. — Saint Francis de Sales
Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration — Abraham Lincoln
When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate of us. There is a world of difference here between demanding justice... and begging or pleading for love. — Mortimer Adler
Any baseball is beautiful. No other small package comes as close to the ideal design and utility. It is a perfect object for a man's hand. Pick it up and it instantly suggests its purpose; it is meant to be thrown a considerable distance - thrown hard and with precision. — Roger Angell
Caring For Others Quotes
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours. — Ray Comfort
We are all in this world together, and the only test of our character that matters is how we look after the least fortunate among us. How we look after each other, not how we look after ourselves. That's all that really matters, I think. — Tommy Douglas
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again. — Bob Marley
Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
No society can long sustain itself unless its members have learned the sensitivities, motivations and skills involved in assisting and caring for other human beings. — Urie Bronfenbrenner
Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner. — Lao Tzu
Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other. — Desmond Tutu
Stress, anxiety, and depression are caused when we are living to please others.
My contention is, first, that we should want more from our educational efforts than adequate academic achievement and, second, that we will not achieve even that meager success unless our children believe that they themselves are cared for and learn to care for others. — Nel Noddings
The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me. — Clara Barton
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least. — Booker T. Washington
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy. — Charlie Chaplin
Concern For Others Quotes
It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways for others to follow Him; all do not go by the same path. It is for each of us to learn the path by which He requires us to follow Him, and to follow Him in that path. — Katharine Drexel
The challenge today is to convince people of the value of truth, honesty, compassion and a concern for others. — Dalai Lama
Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process. — Madeleine L'Engle
Self-control is strength. Calmness is mastery. You have to get to a point where your mood doesn't shift based on the insignificant actions of someone else. Don't allow others to control the direction of your life. Don't allow your emotions to overpower your intelligence.
I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth. — John Wesley
Courtesy should be apparent in all our actions and words and in all aspects of daily life. But be courtesy, I do not mean rigid, cold formality. Courtesy in the truest sense is selfless concern for the welfare and physical and mental comfort of the other person. — Mas Oyama
Good people help others with no concern for themselves. Smart people help others while also helping themselves. Evil people hurt others to help themselves. Dumb people hurt themselves and others. — Balaji Srinivasan
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
For a community to be whole and healthy, it must be based on people's love and concern for each other. — Millard Fuller
I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test. — Patricia Hewitt
Our lives are to be used and thus to be lived as fully as possible, and truly it seems that we are never so alive as when we concern ourselves with other people. — Harry Chapin
Any community seriously concerned with its own freedom has to be concerned about other people's freedom as well. The victory of oppressed people anywhere in the world is a victory for Black people. Each time one of imperialism's tentacles is cut off we are closer to liberation. — Assata Shakur
Service To Others Quotes
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. — Mahatma Gandhi
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people. — Dick Gregory
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared. — Buddha
Don’t let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people. — Dolores Huerta
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. — Booker T. Washington
Grant me courage to serve others; For in service there is true life. — Cesar Chavez
I'm only responsible for what I say, not for what you understand.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. — Barack Obama
Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves. — Gordon B. Hinckley
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others. — Henri Nouwen
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. — Oprah Winfrey
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are. — Maimonides
Me, I don’t want any children, I don’t want responsibility. I am gay, I smoke weed and I do exactly what I want in my life because of my talent. I represent an ideal which others have had to let go and they blame me for that. Especially men. — George Michael
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. — Adrienne Rich
We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes the world a better place to live. — Pope John Paul II
Every society needs educated people, but the primary responsibility of educated people is to bring wisdom back into the community and make it available to others so that the lives they are leading make sense. — Vine Deloria Jr.
With Benghazi, I don't see anyone saying, 'Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It's my fault.' I haven't heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that's just unbelievable to me. — Jocko Willink
We have to strike a balance of responsibility between our duty to update other sources of energy, protecting the environment, protecting our environment and ensuring a proper legacy for the next generations. — Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused — Brennan Manning
Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words. — Mahatma Gandhi
Often, lectins can get in the way of important cells communicating with one another. And when that happens, the body's response is usually inflammation or some other type of reaction to toxicity, like nausea, diarrhea, or vomiting. — Steven Gundry
At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control. — Ellen Tauscher
It's a profound privilege to die from stress-related diseases. It is the elimination of other causes of death such as infectious disease which is responsible for bringing lifestyle diseases to the fore - and these are exquisitely sensitive to stress. — Robert M. Sapolsky
The moment you discover in life that it's not about yourself, that it is about investing in others, I think you're entering a steadier state to be a great leader. Because above all, I think the main quality of a leader is to be a human being. There's no reason you are special because you happen to have this job or these responsibilities. — Paul Polman
Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other. — Jane Goodall
We would very much like to see Iran take a position as a responsible leader that doesn't intimidate or threaten or scare its neighbors and others. But the choice is really up to Iran and we're going to keep working to try to come out with the right decision. — Hillary Clinton
It is hard to describe how much you learn by actually doing — by carefully considering all factors, making a decision, and then taking responsibility for the outcome. Unlocks wisdom that cannot be arrived at any other way. — Greg Brockman
The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others. — Wayne Dyer
Members of trusting teams accept questions and input about their areas or responsibility, appreciate and tap into one another's skills and experiences, and look forward to meetings and other opportunities to work as a group. — Patrick Lencioni
Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society. — Delphine de Girardin
My life has definitely changed since 'Modern Family.' The show has made me more responsible, I really want to be a good role model for all kids so I have to think about what I say and do and how it looks to other kids! — Ariel Winter
Today, near the end of my days, I want to say that I harbor no rancor against anybody, that I love my fatherland above all and that I take political responsibility for everything that was done which had no other goal than making Chile greater and avoiding its disintegration. I assume full political responsibility for what happened. — Augusto Pinochet
I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business. — Eugene H. Peterson
I got into being vegan because I was simply looking to benefit from being more compassionate. I have since come to learn that it is an animal-based diet that is responsible for the overwhelming majority of cases of cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and all kinds of other problems. — Steve-O
Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life. — Caroline Myss
Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one's responsibilities and be willing to make sacrifices for one's country - as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, "If the country is good enough to live in, it's good enough to fight for." With privilege goes responsibility. — Eugene B. Sledge
It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. — Joko Widodo
Harry Truman once said, 'There are 14 or 15 million Americans who have the resources to have representatives in Washington to protect their interests, and that the interests of the great mass of the other people - the 150 or 160 million - is the responsibility of the president of the United States, and I propose to fulfill it.' — John F. Kennedy
Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress. — Melody Beattie
Love of Christ does not distract us from interest in others, but rather invites us to responsibility for them, to the exclusion of no one…. — Pope John Paul II
The TMPG is the place where market participants recognize and address their responsibilities to each other. — Jerome Powell
By blaming others, we fail to find the real solutions to our problems and we do not carry out our own responsibilities. — Jeb Bush
In a true partnership, both partners view it as their responsibility to ensure the other’s emotional well-being. — Amir Levine
To utilize social media tools effectively and properly, you must absolutely generate spontaneous communications in direct response to what others are saying or to what is happening in that moment. Be yourself. Be conversational. Be engaged. — Aliza Sherman
Different people respond differently to head trauma than others. — Dana White
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