responsibility quotes

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

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

We all have the duty to do good.

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

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?

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

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.

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.

To some extent I happily don’t know what I’m doing. I feel that it’s an artist’s responsibility to trust that.

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.

My 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.

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 government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

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.

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

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.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

Every President wants to do right.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

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

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

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

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

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.

Reparations – 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.

When it comes to the qualifications that we should demand of our president, to start with, we need someone who will take the job seriously.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

People 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.

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.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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

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

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.

It’d be stupid for me to sit here and say that there aren’t kids who look up to me, but my responsibility is not to them. I’m not a baby sitter.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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

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

You need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

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

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

No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might – but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them.

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

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

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