I don’t believe in excuses. If I fail, I take responsibility for it and work hard to improve.

A man who murders another shortens by a few brief years the life of a human being; but he who votes to increase the burden of debts upon the people of the United States assumes a graver responsibility.

The responsibility of leading the team is something that can never be taken lightly.

A rumor can spread faster than truth because it carries no responsibility.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

Taking wickets isn’t just my job; it’s a responsibility.

A captain’s mindset should be to lead from the front, take responsibility for your actions, and inspire your team to greatness.

Cricket is a team game, but there are moments when an individual has to stand up and take the responsibility.

We have a responsibility to take care of the planet.

It’s a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

Creativity is a gift. It’s also a responsibility.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

I want to represent possibilities.

Our responsibility is to rally and lead the whole party and the Chinese people of all ethnic groups, take up this historic baton and continue working hard for the great renewal of the Chinese nation, so that we will stand rock firm in the family of nations and make fresh and greater contribution to mankind.

Every player has to help their teammate. We have to share the responsibility.

Good leaders do not make excuses, they take responsibility.

Individual responsibility, hard work, paying attention in school, faith, family all these things are important.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

We’ve matured musically, as well as in the way we think. We’ve also developed a higher sense of responsibility. This has refined us and these developments are really being reflected in our music and our dance.

I’m not trying to be the best, I’m trying to be different.

Our dreams of a pure virtue are dissolved in a situation in which it is possible to exercise the virtue of responsibility toward a community of nations only by courting the prospective guilt of the atomic bomb.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

Oh, these cursed phrases, these lies of language, under which people with meat in their bellies and whole shirts on their backs shelter themselves, and evade the responsibility of their brothers and sisters, empty of belly and without whole shirts on their backs.

The Writer’s Oath I promise solemnly: 1. to write as often and as much as I can, 2. to respect my writing self, and 3. to nurture the writing of others. I accept these responsibilities and shall honor them always.

If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we’re all utterly powerless, that’s the devil at work

The key to success for any woman who wants to have a really serious career and a family is to marry a guy who is going to take at least half the responsibility for the house and kids – and sometimes more than half.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

I feel that I’m very blessed. But with great blessings come great responsibility.

First of all, everyone must acknowledge and feel that child slavery still exists in the world, in its ugliest face and form. And this is an evil, which is crime against humanity, which is intolerable, which is unacceptable and which must go. That sense of recognition must be developed first of all. And secondly there is a need of higher amounts of political will. There is a need of higher amount of corporate engagement, and the engagement of the public towards it. So, everybody has a responsibility to save and protect the children on this planet.

It’s not my responsibility to write plays about the way the world should be

Wherever we play, the batsmen have bigger responsibility in ODI and T20 formats to set up big targets and give that cushion to bowlers.

Teams expect a lot from an opening batsman. It is a lot of responsibility.

Papa wasn’t man enough, couldn’t stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he’d rather live lavishly.

As an opening batsman, it’s my responsibility to spend as much time in the middle as I can and try and get big scores in the first innings so that we don’t have to bat in the second innings.

Captaincy is a responsibility that I take seriously, and always try to lead by example.

I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don’t represent the entire gay community because it’s a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.

To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society”.

You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization – including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain – without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large

grThe great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior

I’m a free safety. The one responsibility I have is making the play, really. So I take those chances.

To Serve the God of Love one must be free, one must face the terrible responsibility of the decision to love in spite of all unworthiness whether in oneself or in one’s neighbor

We do not exist for ourselves

Each is responsible for his own actions.

The truth is that fear cannot coexist with love. Therefore, we must learn how to dissolve all boundaries with love by taking responsibility for our own energy. In doing so, we’ll raise the energy around us.

Only aim to do a duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.

Take care of your cents; dollars will take care of themselves.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the worldworl

My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand

My actions are my only true belongings

The best thing about having my very first audition lead me to an Oscar nomination means that I don’t have to struggle the rest of my career to be nominated for an Oscar, to prove that I’m a great actress, because I’ve already done it. Now I can do things that just make me happy.

The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes, and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I’m conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

It is our responsibility to leave the people of the future a free hand.

You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The key responsibility of leadership is to think about the future. No one else can do it for you.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

The number 7 shirt is an honor and a responsibility. I hope it brings me a lot of luck.

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.

Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen.

He who has the knowledge has the responsibility to impart it to the students.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

No decision has been made unless carrying it out in specific steps has become someone’s work assignment and responsibility.

Around here, I am only the guy who is responsible. If these men don’t know what to do when they run into an enemy in the jungle, I’m too far away to tell them. My job is to make sure they know. What they do depends on the situation which only they can judge. The responsibility is always mine, but the decision lies with whoever is on the spot.” In.

The manager is a servant. His master is the institution he manages and his first responsibility must therefore be to it.

The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn’t preparation for work and never was.

It does not matter whether the worker wants responsibility or not, The enterprise must demand it of him.

The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

I believe that to meet the challenges of our times, human beings will have to develop a greater sense of universal responsibility. Each of us must learn to work not just for oneself, one’s own family, or nation, but for the benefit of all humankind. Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace.

We who are saved find rest in Jesus. Those who are not saved will receive rest if they come to Him, for here He promises to “give” it. Nothing can be freer than a gift; let us gladly accept what He gladly gives. You are not to buy it, nor to borrow it, but to receive it as a gift.

As people alive today, we must consider future generations: a clean environment is a human right like any other. It is, therefore, part of our responsibility toward others to ensure that the world we pass on is as healthy, if not healthier than we found it.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

God never asked us to meet life’s pressures and demands on our own terms or by relying upon our own strength. Nor did He demands that we win His favor by assembling an impressive portfolio of good deeds. Instead, He invites us to enter His rest.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.

That’s home. That’s us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man… It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

If you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life

Your duty is, as ferre as I can gesse.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand ‘I have a problem, it is the Government’s job to cope with it!’ or ‘I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!’ ‘I am homeless, the Government must house me!’ and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first… There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate.

My job is to lead.

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking

I put confidence in the American people, in their ability to sort through what is fair and what is unfair, what is ugly and what is unugly.

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

Rest, let your body relax and grow. Work up gradually and don’t blow it. Sometimes you can do so much your mind gets sick of it. Remember what I said earlier. Keep your mind hungry. People have a tendency to overdo things at first and then slack off.

If you’re sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life

The end of the world is on people’s minds. We have the power to destroy or save ourselves, but the question is what do you do with that responsibility.

Those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action.

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power. Beyond that, it is a question of whether you believe in moral certainties or not.

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.

To keep our hearts open is probably the most urgent responsibility you have as you get older.

I’m restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you’re held responsible for everything, but you don’t always have control of everything, right?

All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart.

I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

A theory which emphasizes individual control and responsibility denies a basic fact of human existence.

We only get one planet. Humankind must become accountable on a massive scale for the wanton destruction of our collective home. Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

The best people need little supervision.

Indian Railways is the responsibility of Lord Vishwakarma. So is the safety of passengers… It is His duty, not mine. I have been forced to don His mantle.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.