responsibility quotes

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

The old-fashioned idea is that responsibility falls upon those who borrow and lend. Money was not borrowed by campesinos, assembly plant workers, or slum-dwellers. The mass of the population gained little from borrowing, indeed often suffered grievously from its effects.

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

We 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.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

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 of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

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.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

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

Wherever 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.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

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.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

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

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

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

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

What 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.

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?‘

Defending peace is the duty of all.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

I 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.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

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.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

I am worrying about my country. I feel I have a responsibility as a novelist to do something.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

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

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.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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

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

With Benghazi, I don’t see anyone saying, ‚Hey look, I am overall responsible for this and therefore, I take responsibility for what happened. It’s my fault.‘ I haven’t heard that yet. Meanwhile, the other side of the coin, the Osama bin Laden raid, it seems everyone made that decision, and that’s just unbelievable to me.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

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

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

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.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

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.

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

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

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.