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.

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

He who has great power should use it lightly.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

When you meet chimps you meet individual personalities. When a baby chimp looks at you it’s just like a human baby. We have a responsibility to them.

If you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

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?‘

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don’t seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Most emissions aren’t caused by individuals, they’re caused by corporations and states.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

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

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

I often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.

Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

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.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

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.‘

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

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.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future.

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

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is ‚to be prepared‘.

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.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

The government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.

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.

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

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

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.

I try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.