ultimate responsibility Quotes

The tradition of our Navy mandates that senior officials bear the ultimate responsibility for their command.

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men's sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will see at once that this is really so, and that you are in fact to blame for everyone and for all things.

I've never covered the president in any way other than that he is ultimately responsible.

When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

But at the end of the day, when the military command looks up, it sees us — the minister of defense and the prime minister. When we look up, we see nothing but the sky above us.

No matter how lofty you are in your department, the responsibility for what your lowliest assistant is doing is yours.

Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity.

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.

Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account.

A leader can give up anything - except final responsibility.

Our kids were God's kids first... We tend to forget this fact, regarding our children as "our" children, as though we have the final say in their health and welfare. We don't. All people are God's people, including the small people who sit at our tables.