Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

Act well your part, there all the honour lies.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

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

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

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

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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

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.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Be the chief but never the lord.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

I have always liked running, so it wasn’t particularly difficult to make it a habit. All you need is a pair of running shoes and you can do it anywhere. It does not require anybody to do it with, and so I found the sport perfectly fits me as a person who tends to be independent and individualistic.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

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.

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

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.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

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

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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

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.

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

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

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.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

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

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

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

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.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

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

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

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.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

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?

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.