Quotes About Responsibility

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

They call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.

If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them more than the miracles of technology. We must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.

It's not doing what is right that's hard for a President. It's knowing what is right.

Often, it'a not one great, dramatic thing that God asks us to do but hundreds of little everyday things. If we want to be used by Him, if we're ready to be used and aren't all tangled up with your own plans and projects, then He'll show us the work He has for us.

Only a coward would send his children to their deaths in order to save his own life.

Our daughters aren't the same people we are, nor are they extensions of ourselves. They are unique individuals in God's eyes, responsible to Him for the choices they make, not to their mothers.

A servant does what his massa says and goes where his massa sends him and doesn't quit until the job is done.

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries-we're in great danger.

Librarians are serious people, seldom given to jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity.

People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it.

Just a minute, Esther. Slow down and listen to me. How can Hashem answer such a prayer in the middle of a war? We are the ones who started this war, not Him. People are not puppets that Hashem controls, making us do whatever He wants. Nor can He be manipulated to do whatever we ask of Him. Human beings chose to start this war, and that means we are responsible for putting the people we love in danger, not Him. But Hashem can bring good from this, even if we cannot see it.

Because we're not free when there are no boundaries—we're in great danger.

No, Engelena. Don't blame yourself. Adam and Eve had a perfect parent, yet they rebelled.

That was the destructive power of sin and lies—they harmed the innocent along with the guilty.

I don't think it's right to unburden your own heart by laying the load on someone else's. Some secrets are better left untold.

What I'm saying is, a lot of boys don't bother growing into men, because they don't have to--their bodies have already done it and it turns out that's all anybody requires.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine that you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

He couldn't imagine what had made his father so angry or the townspeople so mean, but he knew with a child's sudden, clear conviction that it was his fault.

You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

If she takes me to task over this, shall I tell her you attacked the trees?" "We had no treaty with the forest," Saruel replied serenely.

I wasn't put on this earth to be housekeeper to my own child or to anyone else for that matter.