Quotes about Responsibility

We must remember that we have not inherited this planet from our parents, we have borrowed it from our children. But we have not been borrowing their future, we have stolen it and we keep stealing it.

But it's the way we have used the intellect that has made the mess, not the intellect per se.

Remember, never despise a task—any task. In doing any job, you are either creating something or bettering something.

Holes in socks are sorta like sin, Josh. If you don't tend to them right away when they're small and controllable, they grow with amazing speed.

We must not fail to give our full attention to the spreading of the Good News and to prayer. But we must also care for those who are in need. That, too, is God's commandment to us. We must be careful not to neglect that task. "I have spent the afternoon in prayer, as have other apostles, and now we are ready to act. We would like you to select seven men—men who are full of the Spirit and wisdom—and we will turn this responsibility over to them.

The Bible tells us that God abhors it, too. He wants us to love and care for one another." "Does the white man know that?" "Some of them do." "Hasn't the white man had the Bible for many years?" "Yes, for many years." "Then why doesn't he read it and do what it says?" I shook my head. It was a troubling question. "I don't know," I finally admitted. "I really don't know.

Unlike financial impropriety, which needs to be proven, a charge of sexual loutishness and aggressiveness in and of itself can finish you off. Does the man match the charge? To be the kind of man who would be accused of being so gross is guilt enough.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Do your duty, that is best; leave unto the Lord the rest.

We are spirit children of a loving Heavenly Father who placed us in mortality to see if we would choose - freely choose - to keep His commandments and come unto His Beloved Son. They do not compel us. They cannot, for that would interfere with the plan of happiness. And so there is in us a God-given desire to be responsible for our own choices.

The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.