Quotes About Responsibility

There are three unfilial acts: the greatest of these is the failure to produce sons.

The cost of failure is really high when you're contributing as yourself.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or evil fruits can possibly alter that.

'Fault' means failure to meet a standard. Whose? Mine.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

The incompetent quickly throws himself into another impressive enterprise in order to escape his responsibility from previous disaster.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Secrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret.

Heroism is about taking an action which represents a breakthrough, and then assuming full responsiblity for it, even if it's a failure.

Intent is guilt. Failure to successfully carry out the intent does not absolve the guilt.

It is to escape the responsibility for failure that the weak so eagerly throw themselves into grandiose undertakings.

Sometimes we shrink from leadership because our pride makes us afraid of failure. That's not humility.

What people are afraid of isn't failure. It's blame. Criticism.

Our success or failure is not in the hands of our leaders. It is in our.

I think the company's [HP's] success will be my legacy. The company's failure will be my failure, with all the predictable consequences of that.

The only time a mistake becomes a failure is when we look for someone to blame.

It is painful to reflect upon your failures knowing that you alone caused them.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

You can fail many times, but you're not a failure until you begin to blame somebody else.