Quotes About Responsibility

We don't choose where we come from, Marshall. And we often have little to say about what happens to us. But the adult understands that he and he alone is responsible for his life. You have choices now, choices that will affect your future.

She was annoyed by her mother's lack of consideration for the rest of the family, not to mention her lack of foresight about the future. Elizabeth was unwilling to talk about alternatives to living alone in a gigantic old house that she might not be able to manage one day, the care of which would fall to Maggie and Jones.

A good boss asks what part she could have played in the problem. And then she asks herself what she can do better next time.

The hardest thing about being a parent is watching your kids make mistakes. Our instinct is to protect you. But you're right, Deenie. Sometimes we have to step aside and let you make them anyway. The best we can do is be there when you mess up.

Blame was a luxury they could no longer afford.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 5:10

Gordon could ignore his conscience, but he could not disregard the Almighty.

Whatever good we accomplish, the Lord is ultimately responsible, and He alone deserves the praise. The whole purpose of our lives is to magnify His fame and "sing the glory of his name."29

Men let women down. Over and over again. I'ts what they're programmed to do.

It is harsh enough for each man to bear his own wound. But he who leads bears the wounds of all who follow him.

Count the deed, not the thought.

And thus did an Assistant Pig-Keeper become High King of Prydain.

I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work," she added, fastening her bony thumb and forefinger on Gurgi's ear and marching him to a stool beside Taran, "but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!

I shall not lie! Eilonwy cried, not for this traitor and deserter. It is not for him, Taran said quietly, but for the sake of our quest. It isn't right, Eilonwy began, tears starting in her eyes. We do not speak of rightness, Taran answered. We speak of a task to be finished.

A man's life weighs more then glory, and a price paid in blood is a heavy reckoning.

Surely you can entrust your task to your friends. No, said Taran, after a long pause, I have taken it on myself through my own choice. If that is so, answered Medwyn, then you can give it up through your own choice.

Well, said Eilonwy, you can't blame Rhun for being born. I mean, you could, but that wouldn't help matters. It's like kicking a rock with your bare foot.

I've heard men complain of doing woman's work, and women complain of doing man's work, but I've never heard the work complain of who did it, so long as it got done!

My knowledge of parental duties was slight—something to do with graham crackers and proper underclothing. But those duties certainly did not include dashing off to a country of furious Illyrians and, probably, bad drinking water.

We humans now increasingly share in what used to be regarded as the omniscience and omnipotence of God.

Our Business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.

What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong?

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.