Quotes About Responsibility

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

It takes courage not only to make decisions, but to live with those decisions afterward

I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.

There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.

Buzyness, however, is moral laziness because it involves refusing to live with courage and intentionality.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is - whether its victim is human or animal - we cannot expect things to be much better in the world.

I'm amazed at the courage of the journalists on the frontlines in Iraq, but we need intellectual courage in our community.

Everyone including YOU suffers when you refuse to BE all & DO all you can.

There is no avoidance in delay.

I am not afraid of a fight; I have to do my duty, come what may.

Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

Leadership is only courage and wisdom, and a great carefulness of self.

Courage is doing your duty in the face of fear.

But what I realize, here, now, is that it's not actually making the choice that takes courage. It's facing it afterward. Owning up to it, whether it's good or bad.

In recent years we have seen a great deal of bravery and self-sacrifice, but civil courage hardly anywhere, even among ourselves.

A woman should have the ballot, because without this responsibility she cannot best develop her moral courage.

Few things are more damaging to our democracy than a military officer who doesn't have the moral courage to stand up for what's right or the moral fiber to step aside when circumstances dictate.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.

Leaders need the courage to acknowledge when something isn't working.