Joseph B. Wirthlin Quotes

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

I have done what I felt to be my duty.

We are responsible for what we do, and also for the influence of our example.

Leaders should not ask others to do what they will not do themselves.

Everyone has to have a sense of duty. A duty to society, to their family. I mean, you name it.

Duty is that mode of action which constitutes the best application of the capacity of the individual to the general advantage.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

We must not fail, individually, for if we fail, we fail twice - for ourselves and for those who could have been helped, if we had done our duty.

Americans believe that if you know something, you should do something about it.

We all know our duty better than we discharge it.

If you don't do your part, don't blame God.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

If anyone thinks he has no responsibilities, it is because he has not sought them out.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

I'd rather lose my own money than someone else's.

I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, a little less than his share of the credit.

I could've just walked away but I never could have forgiven myself to allow Starbucks to drift into mediocrity or not be relevant. I just couldn't be a bystander.

In dreams begins responsibility.