Quotes About Responsibility

There are going to be many changes, I warn you. I want no officer who is not prepared to do everything that his men have to do. Not only that-he must be able to do it better.

Who kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours.

The world is advanced only by those who more than fill their present places.

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our power to exterminate. But we are also the only species which, when it chooses to do so, we'll go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

I know no way of discounting the doctrine that when you take something you want, and damn the consequences, then you had better be ready to accept whatever consequences ensue.

I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.

There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences.

Anyone pretending to be a guide through wild and fabulous territory should know the territory. I wish I knew it better than I do. I am not Jed Smith. But Jed smith is not available these days as a guide, and I am. I accept the duty, at least as much for what I may learn as for what I may be able to tell others.

I am terribly glad to be alive and when I have wit enough to think about it, terribly proud to be a man and an American with all the rights and privileges that those words connote. And most of all I am humbled before the responsibilities that are also mine. For no right comes without a responsibility and being born luckier than most of the world's millions, I am also born more obligated.

Each child marked a decline in the security of their life.

As the saying goes, I don't want his blood on the rug.

I really only want to say that we may love a place and still be dangerous to it.

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgement over his destiny.

Man is his own master, and there is no higher being or power that sits in judgment over his destiny.

A wife as western quarter should be ministered to by her husband in five ways: by respecting her; by his courtesy; by being faithful to her; by handing over authority to her; by providing her with adornment (jewellery, etc.).

When you're up against adversity, when your shots aren't falling, when guys are hanging on you, pushing you, fouling you, and you're not getting calls, that's when discipline matters. Instead of flying off the handle or blaming your teammates, the officials, or the opposition, players have to keep calm and act decisively to change the tide. Playing the blame game is a sure sign that a team has not jelled and is taking the wrong path

We have met the enemy and they are us!

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

We have met the enemy and it is us.

To the degree that you know what God's expectations of you look like, you do not need Him. Seeking to apply positive commandments forces you into a posture of dependence upon God, which is right where He wants you.

This does not mean, however, that you will not stand before the judgment bar of God and give an account for how you lived the life God gave you. He will remember every thought, motive, word, and deed in your life, and you will be judged accordingly. Your relationship with Him will not be under consideration, but your eternal fruit will.

Illegitimate self-justification takes place when you know you are guilty and seek to hide the fact. Few sins carry the profound ramifications that self-justification does.