Quotes About Responsibility

What I've said to [my team] is, "Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job."

If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

A good king is a public servant.

It is not good enough to say, "Well, hey, I vote every two years. I vote every four years." That's fine, but that is not good enough.

Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people's throats. That's just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.

Unless we lay our course in accordance with this principle, the great power for good in the world with which we have been intrusted by a Divine Providence will be turned to a power for evil.

We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

Despite their good intentions, today's businesses are missing an opportunity to integrate social responsibility and day-to-day business objectives - to do good and make money simultaneously.

All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.

It takes very little to govern good people. Very little. And bad people cant be governed at all. Or if they could I never heard of it.

I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

I'm just constantly trying to be a good dad.

Most of us entered journalism and joined "news organizations" because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

A TV show can't hold people and institutions to account like good journalism can.

Freedom and liberty lose out by default because good people are not vigilant.

[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.

I am a good mother and I feel proud about it.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.

Buddhism suggests there are no elect. Everything rests upon your own self-effort, which is the good news because that means you don't have to wait around for some nebulous God to help you.

Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.