We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations from the beginning of history has been about 200 years.

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.

I think my message to the politicians who have within their power the ability to make change is, ‚Do you really, really not care about the future of your great-grandchildren? Because if we let the world continue to be destroyed the way we are now, what’s the world going to be like for your great-grandchildren?‘

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Look at the world. There is no pure competitor to the United States of America.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe.

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

When you’re in a leadership role, you can never please all of the people all of the time. There’s also a lot of responsibility that goes along with it that others may not realize.

There are some loony people in this world!

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

The world is round so that friendship may encircle it.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don’t think anybody has held this job who hasn’t felt personally responsible for those being killed.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world… Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

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

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.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come to being.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

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

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

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.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

Syllables govern the world.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

We had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

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 can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

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.

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.

The world is before you and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.