Quotes about Responsibility

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

An unwillingness to accept risk has swamped more leaders than anything I can think of.

We should discipline with the goal of teaching our children the critical life skill of making things right with the people they've wronged.

As leaders, we are never responsible for filling anyone else's cup. Our responsibility is to empty ours.

You see your children growing. You look at your grandchildren, and you say to yourself, 'What if I weren't here? Have I done all I can to prepare them for their role in life?' You realize that you never quite do everything, but you want to do better than what you have done.

Marriage, in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.

My father spent all those years building his brand. I happen to be his namesake, and I also happen to be the president of the largest Christian university. I think I have a responsibility to be a good citizen. The least I can do is to lend my name and whatever influence I have to make a difference politically.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

God will take care of the poor trampled slave, but where will the slaveholder be when eternity begins?