Definition of Responsible

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Responsible

Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.

Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.

Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office.

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Responsible Quotations

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas Jefferson

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Albert Einstein

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.
Ronald Reagan

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston Churchill

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
C. S. Lewis

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

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
Peter Drucker

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.
Robert H. Schuller

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

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

Responsible Translations

responsible in Afrikaans is verantwoordelik, aanspreeklik
responsible in Danish is ansvarlig
responsible in Dutch is verantwoordelijk, aansprakelijk
responsible in French is responsable
responsible in Italian is responsabile
responsible in Spanish is responsable

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