Quotes About Responsibility

This is our Country, there is nobody else who is going to come from outside to defend us. We need to wake up and defend ourselves to make this Country a beautiful and better Country for all of us.

Twenty per cent of the people in volunteer groups do ninety per cent of the work.

What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

It is not a church's job to spiritually develop your children. Scripturally, it is the job of the parents. The church body is supposed to support parents in raising children, not replace them.

There goes my people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.

The environmental crisis is fundamentally a spiritual crisis.

Your own life is the way it is because of you, and the choices you have made - or failed to make.

The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

Since my money is God's money, every spending decision I make is a spiritual decision.

My moral and spiritual formation does not allow me to be a dictator... If I were a dictator, You can be sure that many things have happened.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Karma is your survival and your bondage. And if you handle it right, it can also be your liberation.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

No condition outside ourselves can create a rut or trap us in it. It's impossible.

Fatigue is the price of leadership. Mediocrity is the price of never getting tired.

Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. We realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all this life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship to the universe.