I would feel no hesitation in saying that it is the responsibility of a decent human being to give assistance to a child who is being attacked by a rabid dog, but I would not intend this to imply that in all imaginable circumstances one must, necessarily, act in accordance with this general responsibility.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

We came into a broken world. And we’re the cleanup crew.

We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

I see the face of a child. He lives in a great city. He is black. Or he is white. He is Mexican, Italian, Polish. None of that matters. What matters, he’s an American child.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

My first job in all honesty is going to continue to be mom-in-chief. Making sure that in this transition, which will be even more of a transition for the girls… that they are settled and that they know they will continue to be the center of our universe.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

When the players go home, I can’t tell them what to do, so you need to create an atmosphere of trust. I don’t want to think, ‚What are they doing now? Do I need to call them?‘

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

The first duty of a state is to see that every child born therein shall be well housed, clothed, fed and educated till it attains years of discretion.

People make a big fuss over you when you’re President. But I’m very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn’t go to my head.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Defending peace is the duty of all.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Our DNA is as a consumer company – for that individual customer who’s voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That’s who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it’s not up to par, it’s our fault, plain and simply.

Every President wants to do right.

There is a heavy emphasis in Mormonism on initiative, on responsibility, on a work ethic, and on education. If you take those elements together with a free-enterprise system, you’ve got the chemistry for a lot of industry.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

Leaders are responsible not for running public opinion polls but for the consequences of their actions.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

When you’re around the kids, you feel like you act the most grown up just because you’re supposed to lead. I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

When you’re drowning, you don’t say ‚I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,‘ you just scream.

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

My husband and I had to raise five of my younger brothers and sisters. They lived with us. We sent them to school.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.