John Abbott Quotes

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community and I use the word very loosely. It's a big community. If I get recognized in the middle of the Sinai Desert I have a big community.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

When you are part of a megachurch, you have no responsibility to anybody else.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm

There's no sense that you can knock on your neighbor's door or be part of a local community group, and that's part of your responsibility as a human being.

I still love my people, not just my family - my people. I feel a huge responsibility for them.

When approached right, citizens never fail to shoulder their responsibilities.

Companies should increasingly see themselves as major corporate citizens with a wider responsibility to the community. Nothing less than their reputation - their image - is at stake.

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

You have a responsibility when you have a large community.

Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them.

It is time to stop waiting for someone to save us. It is time to face the truth of our situation - that we're all in this together, that we all have a voice - and figure out how to mobilize the hearts and minds of everyone in our workplaces and communities.

I want people to think about everyone in their life, and their responsibilities to their friends, their families and their country.

I have gone from a Barry Goldwater Republican to a New Democrat, but I think my underlying values have remained pretty constant; individual responsibility and community. I do not see those as being mutually inconsistent.

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

When a church is faithless to its duties, the real church is outside its walls, in the community.

If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.

Our mission in this new century is clear. For good or ill, we live in an interdependent world. We can't escape each other. Therefore, we have to spend our lives building a global community of shared responsibilities, shared values, shared benefits.

Remember you live in a community. You have a responsibility to be accountable to your family and your community as well as yourself.

The school must be "a genuine form of active community life, instead of a place set apart in which to learn lessons".

People must take a modicum of public responsibility for each other even if they have no ties to each other.