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

I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

My name is not unfamiliar to anybody in the dance community. I’m talking the upper echelon of dance studios.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

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

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world – a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

I do the dishes every night – other people volunteer, but I like the way I do it.

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

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Be the chief but never the lord.

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

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

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

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.

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.

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

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

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

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.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.