Quotes About Responsibility

We should be careful as to the choices we make. We need to be certain that we are prepared to accept the consequences of those choices.

The Roman censor Appius Claudius the Blind said, "Every man is the architect of his own fortune.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

For every promise, there is price to pay.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

It's something that this country hasn't had to deal with. But there's going to be a whole new generation that doesn't know their father. It's almost selfish of us to die. They train us as warriors. But they don't teach us how to take the pain away.

In the U.S., whichever party was in power wasn't interested in support for public health. Public health never competed well for resources in either the House or the Senate. Countries were like people: they didn't value health until they lost it. And then once they got it back, they returned to their old complacency.

Showing Respect Is not Slavery...and Must Be Taught

Regardless of how intelligent we may be, if we make stupid choices, we will suffer the consequences.

We have become a society of people that loves to blame someone else for our condition.

Anytime we fail to bring our best efforts to our job, we diminish our employer, our colleagues, and most significantly, ourselves.

when you make a mistake in business you must address it immediately, own it unconditionally, and fix it as quickly and accurately as possible.

When we don't pull our own weight, we drag down everyone else.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children's diet, and the government's role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

So I ask you: whose job is it in this country to wake up comatose parents? Someone better do it soon because knowing television's potential for harm and keeping that knowledge to ourselves instead of sharing it with parents amounts to covering up a land mine on a busy street.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

It just doesn't make spiritual sense to suggest that the evil all lies "out there" with our adversaries and enemies, and none of it is "in here" with us—embedded in our own attitudes, behaviors, and policies.

But no matter where you go as a white person in American society, no matter where you live, no matter who your friends and allies are, and no matter what you do to help overcome racism, you can never escape white privilege in America if you are white.

As I have talked with black friends about this book, especially with black parents, the line that has elicited the most response is this one: "If white Christians acted more Christian than white, black parents would have less to fear for their children.

bought into Milton Friedman's 1970 New York Times essay "The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

Don't focus primarily on your spouse; focus on yourself. You cannot change his or her behavior, but you can change your own behavior with God's help.