We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else’s, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

Older and wiser voices can help you find the right path, if you are only willing to listen.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The Scoutmaster who is a hero to his boys holds a powerful lever to their development but at the same time brings a great responsibility on himself. They are quick enough to see the smallest characteristic about him, whether it be a virtue or a vice.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The best thing about being a dad? Well, I think it’s just the thing that every man wants – to have a son and heir.

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.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

After you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.

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.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

A people do not throw their geniuses away. And if they are thrown away, it is our duty as artists and as witnesses for the future to collect them again for the sake of our children and, if necessary, bone by bone.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

Be the chief but never the lord.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.