Quotes about Responsibility

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

The fewer sacrifices a man is required to make, the more loath he will be to make those few.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Whenever a child is given to parents, a crown is made for it in Heaven; and woe to those parents if that child is not reared with a sense of responsibility to acquire that crown!

When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.

I don't have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else's lap doesn't just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.

All parents hope and pray that their children will make wise decisions. Children who are obedient and responsible bring to their parents unending pride and satisfaction.

Upon you, fellow-citizens, as the representatives of the States and the people, is wisely devolved the legislative power.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Character in leadership is the most important balance for leadership. Without character, leaders have no safety. Leadership has no protection without character.