Quotes About Responsibility

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, represents, in the final analysis, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.

Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.

Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

The history of free men is never written by chance but by choice - their choice.

Americans, indeed all free men, remember that in the final choice a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

it is a terrible fact, but it is a fact, that few people have the imagination or the moral sensitivity to get very excited about actions which they don't participate in themselves.... and hence about which they feel no personal responsibility

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Part of our responsibility as parents, as adults, is to set examples for children. But we have to like children in order to be really happy fulfilled adults

We shape ourselves the joy or fear Of which the coming life is made, And fill our Future's atmosphere With sunshine or with shade.

To save an animal's life in order that it may suffer indefinitely is something I would never condone.

Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

Life is to blame for everything.

The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life. That's when, 'Why me?' becomes a theme song.

Now people think it's cool to have a baby, but it ain't cool to take care of it. We have to change that. You make your life for that baby. That's the future.

Your life is your own, to develop or to destroy. You can blame others little and yourself almost totally if that life is not a productive, worthy, full, and abundant one.

Life never gives you what you deserve but what you decided.