Quotes About Responsibility

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

The only people you have to look out for in life are the people that don't care about anything or anyone. These are the people that end up teaching your children.

A person who has the power to take a life, should have the intelligence to choose not to.

All you owe the public is a good performance.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

Notice that "I" is at the center of the word "ethical." There is no "they." Achieving the ethics of excellence is our individual assignment.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to come and rescue you.

Human experience shows that people, not organizations or management systems, get things done

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The way we care for our babies is how they experience our love.

As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

The worst experience any majority can have is that you convene and you look around and nothing's ready to go.

You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience.

Not wanting to see, not wanting to be in touch with one's experience is something akin to cognitive laziness, an eclipse of the experiencer or inner witnessing in the person.

You are the architect of your personal experience.