Quotes About Responsibility

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

The central task for a business is to make a profit. The challenge is to make a profit by doing things which are genuinely good for people and good for societies.

To get people to do needed things is the perennial hard task of government, not to mention of religion and philosophy.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

We are considered to be a watchdog, the IEA, and a watchdog fulfils its task only if it barks. So I bark when I think there is a need for barking.

My task is becoming more and more delicate, while the difficulties increase constantly.

Remembering who I am is a really active task for me. And I often have to tell myself, 'You're a graduate student,' 'You're a daughter,' et cetera, in situations where I'm supposed to behave like one.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

Being a mother must be the most difficult task in the world.

I don't care who you are, the pressure is on to go to the next task immediately. What happened to the days of hanging out in the hammock all afternoon?

I realize that much will be asked of me, yet I am resolved to accept it as a great and splendid task.

When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

I'm lazy but generally task oriented so having a hoop to jump through means eventually I'll make the effort.

My responsibility is always and everywhere the same: to see in my brother more even than the personality and manhood that are his. My task is always and everywhere the same: to see Christ himself.

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.

Because the task of a political leader is to do what he believes is better for his country. Sometimes the public opinion is in favor; sometimes the public opinion needs a little bit more time to understand things.

Women run the small country called Home, millions of us do it in our spare time, and no one who doesn't run that small country really knows what it feels like in the dead of night when task lists jitter like tickertape through your seething brain.

If you want someone else to do a task, don't do it yourself.

The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

Often, the more reliably you perform a task, the less likely it is for someone to notice that you're doing it and to feel grateful and to feel any impulse to help or to take a turn.

We ask the military to be in a position that, if we ask them to do a task, they are absolutely able to do it for us.

I worked hard at whatever task I was given and embraced leadership opportunities, whether as a crossing guard, an altar boy, or a general.