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

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

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.

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

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

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.

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

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

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

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.

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.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

We all have the duty to do good.

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.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

One of the finest statesmen of the present time is also a first-class scout, and that is Mr. Roosevelt, the late President of the United States of America.

Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

We need someone with superb judgement in their own right because, yes, a president can hire the best advisors on Earth, but I guarantee you this: Five advisors will give five different opinions. And it is the president – and the president alone – who always makes the final call.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.

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.

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Artists have a responsibility to speak and to act when governments fail, and if we don’t do that, we really deserve the world we get.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

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

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.

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?

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

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

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

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.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Respect the burden.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

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

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

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

It started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

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

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

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

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.

Train up a child in the way that he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

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

When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame.