responsibility Quotes

It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern... ...

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

"It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can... ...

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

"To become a man is to be responsible; to be ashamed of miseries that you did not cause."

“We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government.”

Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, therein lies your vocation. These two, your talents and the needs of the world, are the great wake up calls to your true vocation in life... to ignore this, is... ...

Boundaries don't protect rivers, people do.

"If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine."

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

"If I were to remain silent, I'd be guilty of complicity."

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.