Quotes About Responsibility

Victims recite problems, leaders provide solutions.

I've heard that the best way to help poor people is to make sure you don't become one of them

Victim fall in love with excuses

Be the CEO of your life

If you don't act on life, life has a habit of acting on you.

You empower everything you complain about. You strengthen the negative things you speak of. And you energize the problems you vocalize.

Blaming others is excusing yourself.

Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.' Become a bigger person and you'll also automatically become a better leader—and a greater producer.

To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.

We need acts of restoration, not only for polluted waters and degraded lands, but also for our relationship to the world. We need to restore honor to the way we live, so that when we walk through the world we don't have to avert our eyes with shame, so that we can hold our heads up high and receive the respectful acknowledgment of the rest of the earth's beings.

Being naturalized to place means to live as if this is the land that feeds you, as if these are the streams from which you drink, that build your body and fill your spirit. To become naturalized is to know that your ancestors lie in this ground. Here you will give your gifts and meet your responsibilities. To become naturalized is to live as if your children's future matters, to take care of the land as if our lives and the lives of all our relatives depend on it. Because they do.

Each person, human or no, is bound to every other in a reciprocal relationship. Just as all beings have a duty to me, I have a duty to them. If an animal gives its life to feed me, I am in turn bound to support its life. If I receive a stream's gift of pure water, then I am responsible for returning a gift in kind. An integral part of a human's education is to know those duties and how to perform them.

Never take the first plant you find, as it might be the last—and you want that first one to speak well of you to the others of her kind.

Something is broken when the food comes on a Styrofoam tray wrapped in slippery plastic, a carcass of a being whose only chance at life was a cramped cage. That is not a gift of life; it is a theft.

Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.

Loretta didn't have much time left for mothering, and once I was old enough to fry my own eggs, she started leaving me home with the cat. Then the cat ran away; she didn't notice. Poor

You tell me, Dex, what kind of a bullshit god doesn't care what you did or who you hurt as long as you say you're sorry? Forgiveness

He'd wanted to get her baptized before she could take off and lose herself in some rough life and then be lost in whatever came after it.

The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in, becoming narcissistic.

Marriage...it's not a word, it's a sentence.

Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.

does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.

As for the fall of the Spanish Empire, ironically, perhaps no monarchs in history were more conscientious, honest, or hardworking than Charles V and his son Philip II. Between them they carefully built the Spanish Empire and ruled it for more than eighty years. Nearly every day they rose early and worked diligently at administering this sprawling entity. Had they been wastrels or playboys, they might have done much less damage to the economies in their charge.

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.