Quotes about Responsibility

Every city and town in America would be bankrupt if they kept their books the way private-sector companies keep their books - because of the obligation cities and towns have taken upon themselves to provide health care for their retirees.

I am at the top of Toyota and drive cars myself. I was also born with this name.

It's a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments. So when my daughter told me on the second track meet that she was done with it because she discovered she didn't like competing, I made her finish the season.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

How spiritually blind are men that they fail to see that we are bound together. We rise or fall together; we are dwarfed or godlike, free or chained, together.

Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Man always travels along precipices... His truest obligation is to keep his balance.

When asked what he would do if he knew the world would end tomorrow, Martin Luther said, "I would plant a tree."

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

Leadership is not taken, it is given. People give leadership to those that they trust. They allow people that they trust to have influence over their lives.

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