Quotes About Responsibility

Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo

I placed quite a burden on Anakin, didn't I, by giving him that name." –Leia Organa Solo "He is strong enough to carry that burden, Leia...He's young, yet he has courage and intelligence." –Elegos A'Kla

If the quest was supposed to be easy, they would not have given it to someone who is supposed to be a hero.

Choose your battles well. There is no point in launching a fight over some minor matter. Pay your parking tickets, but fight like hell if your land is under threat, if your local farmers' market is being moved or closed, or the open wild land next door is proposed for two hundred condominiums.

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.

I built a series of supporters that had my back. I never abused that trust. You can't cry wolf. You have to solve most problems yourself.

Employ hindsight but humbly, remembering that life and death decisions are made by leaders in real-time, and not by historians in retrospect.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

Men come and go but bills are forever.

People come to work to succeed. It's our responsibility as managers to support them so that they do. Every person has the right to succeed every time they do their job, and they also have the right to have a successful career.

Crises will come and go in all countries, more often in some than in others; at these moments, someone has to lead, has to make sure that while the crisis is addressed, it doesn't overwhelm the pre-existing agenda for change. Allow that, and failure beckons. Hence Harold Macmillan's famous lament about why he had not achieved more: 'Events, dear boy! Events.

The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.

The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men. D

To protect civilians, the state needs sometimes to do things that are contrary to democratic behavior. It is true that in units like ours the outer limits can become blurred. That's why you must be sure that your people are of the best quality. The dirtiest actions should be carried out by the most honest men.

If God acts only through us, it follows that there is a sense in which we are responsible not only to God but for God, or at least God's continuance, by our actions.4 Take this to heart and a great deal changes. One weight is lifted and another is taken on—a weight that does not bend our backs but gives joy to life and purchase to our step.

At this point, I think if you're being silent, you're making a choice and taking a side.

Working collectively and collaboratively is the difference between mediocrity by yourself...or success as a team. You have to share the pain... and the responsibility... and if you do then you will also share in the rewards.

If they don't act, we will. Shame on them but we cannot sit around and watch our environment deteriorate and put this world in jeopardy. We are willing to stand up, we think it is one of the seminal issues of our time.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

Leading from the front: Its what built America. But these days, the federal government isnt at the front its cowering in the back corner of the room, ducking responsibility and hoping no one notices.

When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

The press really is not doing its job of holding [the candidates'] feet to the fire. ... The tough questions are not what are you in favor of, but how are you going to get it through Congress?

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.