Responsibility Quotes

My children didn't choose to be born, I chose to have children. They owe me nothing, I owe them everything.

It is a tremendous responsibility for us to have all the eyes focused on what we do and give people exactly what they need when they ask for it.

The most basic duty of government is to defend the lives of its citizens. Any government that fails to do so is a government unworthy to lead.

No, I don't take responsibility at all, because we were given a set of circumstances and we were given rules, regulations and specifications from a different time.

Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.

Some entrepreneurs talk of a high burn rate, high advertising rate, and so on, with no outcome, so it doesn't impress me. But an entrepreneur who has that kind of a feeling of responsibility towards his investors is somebody who will have all my support.

Business need to go beyond the interest of their companies to the communities they serve.

Our modern world places such heavy demands on our time and attention that the need to remember our responsibilities to others is greater than ever.

If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy.

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

It is the prime responsibility of every citizen to feel that his country is free and to defend its freedom is his duty. Every Indian should now forget that he is a Rajput, a Sikh or a Jat. He must remember that he is an Indian and he has every right in this country but with certain duties.

I want to emphasize again that all responsibility for the possible bloodshed will lie fully and wholly with the ruling Ukrainian regime.

Big problems don't rest on the shoulders of government or corporations alone.

If you want to think of a company as a system, design the system to benefit all. So how can you raise wages, increase training, and reduce carbon, and provide low-prices? We believe that it's possible to deliver, and I find a lot of other likeminded CEOs, as it relates to thinking that way.

My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm a gun owner myself. We understand that heritage, our deeply rooted place in America and our influence as the world's largest retailer. And we understand the responsibility that comes with it.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every citizen who enjoys the protection of a free government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

Real men despise battle, but will never run from it.