Quotes About Responsibility

On love I have no respect for anyone who says they've given up, or that they're not looking or that they're tired. That is to abrogate one's responsibility as a human being.

The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.

The only way for errors to occur in a program is by being put there by the author. No other mechanisms are known. Programs can't acquire bugs by sitting around with other buggy programs.

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

A scientist shouldn't be asked to judge the economic and moral value of his work. All we should ask the scientist to do is find the truth and then not keep it from anyone.

The most important work you and I will ever do will be within the wall of our own homes.

I have always been taught… that every man is divinely called to his work, if that work is for the good of all men. His faithfulness or unfaithfulness to the call is revealed in the motives that prompt him to choose his field.

Public utility must be the first consideration.

Thomson Reuters, for instance, advises reporters and editors: "It is acceptable to say that a guerrilla organization claimed responsibility for carrying out an attack. Do not say it claimed credit.

Author Edward Johnson neatly labels such cop-outs as the pussyfooting passive.

The discipline that makes an effective leader begins in the home.

I can't promise you that I will bring you all home alive. But this I swear, before you and before Almighty God, that when we go into battle, I will be the first to set foot on the field, and I will be the last to step off, and I will leave no one behind. Dead or alive, we will all come home together. So help me, God.

In the American Civil War it was a matter of principle that a good officer rode his horse as little as possible. There were sound reasons for this. If you are riding and your soldiers are marching, how can you judge how tired they are, how thirsty, how heavy their packs weigh on their shoulders?

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

Almost from the moment votes are counted, lame-duck chief executives invariably recede into superfluity, but Lincoln's hapless predecessor, James Buchanan, made procrastination into an art form. He could not have excused himself from responsibility at a more portentous moment, or left his successor with graver problems to address once he was constitutionally entitled to do so.

A writer at the time said, "Lincoln means to sink the man in the public officer.

When something causes you concern, stop and think about what you need to do about it. If there is nothing you can do about it, talk to God about what belongs to Him and what is yours.

Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can do very much good, and almost anything he may say may do a great deal of harm. Anything he says that is not obvious is dangerous; whatever is not trite is risky. He is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

If you don't have this freedom of the press, then all these little fellows are weaseling around and doing their monkey business and they never get caught.