Quotes About Responsibility

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

It will forever remain an accusation and a challenge to all men and women of conscience that it took as long as it has, before all of us stood up to say enough is enough.

I wondered--not for the first time--whether one was ever justified in neglecting the welfare of one's own family in order to fight for the welfare of others. Can there be anything more important than looking after one's aging mother? Is politics merely a pretext for shirking one's responsibilities, an excuse for not being able to provide in the way one wanted?

Crime must be brought under control... Freedom without civility, freedom without the ability to live in peace, was not true freedom at all.

To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy.

our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

A man is not a man until he has a house of his own.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded...

I am your servant…. It is not the individuals that matter, but the collective….

A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the result.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never return.

Každý ?lov?k má v život? dvojí závazek - v??i rodin?, rodi??m, žen? a d?tem, ale také v??i národu, komunit?, zemi.

and when we did come out [of prison], my children said, "We thought we had a father and one day he'd come back. But to our dismay, our father came back and he left us alone because he has now become the father of the nation.

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I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people.

lay a lost and delightful world, the world of my childhood, the world of sweet and irresponsible days at Qunu and Mqhekezweni. Now I was a man, and I would never again play thinti, or steal maize, or drink milk from a cow's udder.

Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.

To me, if you've been given beauty, it's a responsibility to make beauty with it. It's like the law of energy. Beauty doesn't die; it just takes different forms. The most important thing is to give it back, to leave the world larger.

what we have done is unacceptable.

The shame attached to rape was men's shame, shame they were too weak to carry: that their gender could do this, that they could do it, that they wanted to do it, that they could not protect their wives and sisters and daughters from it, that they could not stop it. That a thing they believed to be solely theirs could be taken by another man. That, should a child be born, the cuckold would be left to raise another man's bastard.

As a Park Ranger I will protect and serve you...But we'll never be friends. Is that going to be a problem? The tarantula stopped, its front pair of legs feeling the air.

Men and women in the United States carried a terrific burden