Quotes about Responsibility

You have given me a great responsibility—to stay close to you, to be worthy of you, and to exemplify what you are. Let us create together a new national spirit of unity and trust. Your strength can compensate for my weakness, and your wisdom can help to minimize my mistakes.

And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense -- I tell you it is an act of patriotism.

There is no shame in being the object of a crime. You did not choose to be the object.

So, a word to all you Femin-Idi-Amins: Stop "liberating" moms by trying tomake them join the workforce. They're already doing the job that God putthem here to do: Everything.

One of the saddest things is the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day day after day is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day nor make love for 8 hours.

While I am busy with little things I am not required to do greater things.

I didn't come from a wealthy family. My dad told us if we wanted spending money, we had to earn it. So I developed an early work ethic.

There comes a time when silence is betrayal.

The family unit plays a critical role in our society and in the training of the generation to come.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.