No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas JeffersonThere’s a common perception among college administrators that they should conceal the high level of sexual assaults that take place on their campuses because it would bring discredit to the university, bring them a bad name if it was publicized.
Jimmy CarterWherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
Eckhart TolleThe thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
Jeff BezosThose who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
Hermann HesseAdopt 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.
Jordan PetersonIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonDesign is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
Steve JobsWe’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.
Barack ObamaI 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.
Amelia EarhartThe best customer service is if the customer doesn’t need to call you, doesn’t need to talk to you. It just works.
Jeff BezosAlas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Albert CamusI let the American people down.
Richard M. NixonIt’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.
Mark ZuckerbergWe see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff BezosUnlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson MandelaMy father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
Wayne DyerIn politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
Napoleon BonaparteCommitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul SartrePeople make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.
Jimmy CarterIt 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.
Frank OceanThe responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George EliotUse every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?
William ShakespeareI brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
Richard M. NixonWoe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas CarlyleOnly aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas JeffersonThe 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.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA 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.
Alice WalkerWhat 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.
Maya AngelouHe who has great power should use it lightly.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaGod has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.
John MuirOur deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George EliotMost emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.
Greta ThunbergThere will be no whitewash in the White House.
Richard M. NixonReparations – not just aid – should be provided by those responsible for devastating Iraqi civilian society by cruel sanctions and military actions, and – together with other criminal states – for supporting Saddam Hussein through his worst atrocities and beyond. That is the minimum that honesty requires.
Noam ChomskyThe man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.
Lou HoltzAs 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.
Michelle ObamaI have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas JeffersonWhen people are lame, they love to blame.
Robert KiyosakiFreedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor RooseveltThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin FranklinWe 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.
Michelle ObamaHe who is not a good servant will not be a good master.
PlatoWe had to go on and do the work of the court and we did.
Ruth Bader GinsburgWe 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.
Michelle ObamaWith regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph AddisonAbsolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Henry AdamsI would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.
Noam ChomskySome people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.
Greta ThunbergThe buck stops here!
Harry S. TrumanWe never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.
Robert Baden-PowellA 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.
Henry KissingerWe must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald ReaganTo me, a leader is someone who holds her- or himself accountable for finding potential in people and processes. And so what I think is really important is sustainability.
Brene BrownYour most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill GatesIn 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.
Eleanor RooseveltEvery thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.
Thich Nhat HanhPower does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard ShawThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkeWe 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.
Greta Thunberg