Quotes About Responsibility

If I am in Moscow for example and one night I decide to go out to my friend's house why should I come back at eight o'clock in the morning to my house to be checked?

There comes a morning in life when you wake up a new person; that is to say, you wake up the same person but you realize it's your own fault.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world.

I think public service is a calling and you do it as long as the things that brought you into the office can continue getting you up in the morning and as long as there's still work to get done.

When Woodstock ended on Monday morning, over 600 acres of garbage was left behind on Max Yasgur's farm. It took over 400 volunteers and $100,000 to remove it all.

Who would you die for? Who would you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don't even know why he needs you?

When I wake up in the morning, I think about Syria.

I have a family and two cats; I get up with my kids early in the morning.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.

Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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.'

If, while I hear the wild shriek of the slave mother robbed of her little ones, I do not open my mouth, am I not guilty?

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

The worker-mother must learn not to differentiate between yours and mine; she must remember that there are only our children, the children of Russia's communist workers.

Children are the anchors of a mother's life.

I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

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.