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.

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.

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.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

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.

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

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

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

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

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

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

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.

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.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

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

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Every President wants to do right.

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

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.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.

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

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Don’t blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

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

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

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

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

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

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.

When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

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

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

We 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.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

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

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.

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.