Quotes About Responsibility

If they are unsuccessful in married life, who suffers more the bitter consequences of poverty than the wife? But if successful, she has not a dollar to call her own.

The life you save may very well be your own.

Your life is your ship and you are the captain. Choose your course, take the wheel firmly and get on your way.

You know, my life's changed now. I'm starting to experience what people are really supposed to do. You supposed to be married. You're supposed to have a family, kids, treat your wife right.

Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting.

Life is not a journey you want to make on autopilot.

We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail?

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

A mother is a mother all of your life,but a father is a father only when he has a wife.

I wondered how many times in my life I had done something just because I wanted to without weighing the consequences.

Every child's life is sacred and it is long past time that we protect it.

You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Informed optimism is different from a willful ignorance that simply wishes not to see the bad in the world. Seeing the truth and choosing every day to see it, letting life break your heart but doing something about it took courage. It was not about hiding your head in the sand but rather digging in, accepting the challenges, and doing the hard work it takes not just to complain about a problem but to be the solution.

Who will save your soul, if you won't save your own?

Parenting is constant readjustment.

I did not write love songs as a sixteen-year-old. I did not write about crushes or about mean girls. I wrote about my life—about the injustices and inequities and the search for answers and self-responsibility.

Only the living can make the world better. Live and make it better" (Rhodes).

Can't undo wrong. Can only do our best to make things right" -Grandma