Beatrix of the Netherlands Quotes

I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

My duty is clear and at all costs will be done.

I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

I do not take up a responsibility unless I am sure of putting my heart and soul into it.

[President] McKinley gave [Lt. Andrew Sommers] Rowan a letter to be delivered to [General Calixto] Garcia: Rowan took the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at?" By the eternal, there is a man whose form should be cast in deathless bronze and the statue placed in every college in the land. It is not book learning that young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be loyal to a trust to act promptly, concentrate their energies, do the thing—"carry a message to Garcia.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government ... neither to flap nor to falter.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

I need to be the leader day in and day out - and I will be.

It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.

I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.

I have a strong sense of responsibility. I like to be directed, it's true. If I didn't like that, I'd do something else.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.

One must work; one must work. I have done what I could.

It is the solemn obligation of a leader always to be a leader. Even when - perhaps especially when - you don't feel like being a leader.

I will not refuse to do something that I can do.

Our people expect the best of us. They send us to take care of the people's business, and those of us who take hold of that responsibility understand that's what it's really about.

I feel a tremendous responsibility to my crew, to my cast, to every guest star that comes on.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

You have to step up when your number is called.

I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.