Quotes about Responsibility

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Never delay a prompting. When you honor a prompting and then stand back a pace, you realize that the Lord gave you the prompting. It makes me feel good that the Lord even knows who I am and knows me well enough to know that if He has an errand to be run, and He prompts me to run the errand, the errand will get done.

I learned one thing in Watergate: I was well-intentioned but rationalized illegal behavior. You cannot live your life other than walking in the truth. Your means are as important as your ends.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

When preaching is done right, it can change lives. When it's done badly, my failure goes beyond the merely human.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

I'm the only president you've got.

I dare not exercise personal liberty if it infringes on the liberty of others.

I'm a big boy now, and I have to deliver.

As we consider the causes of depression, those of us in the church must face the ways we might be responsible for creating it.

I've become a master of the apology.