Quotes About Responsibility

New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.

The most important rule of scuba diving is... If you don't feel right, don't go down

To be accountable means that we are willing to be responsible to another person for our behavior and it implies a level of submission to another's opinions and viewpoints.

If you don't control your time- someone else will. If you don't protect your dream- you will fulfill someone else 's dream.

Leadership matters more in times of uncertainty.

When we come to understand that the Christian life is something that I "get to do," not something I "have to do," then we are coming near to the Christ life.

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

I drove hard on all cylinders, not realizing that being an entrepreneur means that everything you initiate, by default you must add to your maintenance list.

We won't be held accountable for how much we have done, but for how much we have done of what He has asked us to do.

Only you can keep yourself spiritually healthy by feeding yourself. No one can do it for you by proxy.

I can't do any more than I can do, and if people don't like it that's no fault of mine.

The last 5 percent . . . it's something we have to discover and then be responsible for. • • Only I can be a husband/wife to my spouse. • • Only I can be a father/mother to my children. • • Only I can grow myself spiritually. • • Only I can keep myself healthy. • • Only I can keep myself disciplined.

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

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

I knew at a young age, whether I was playing baseball or hockey or lacrosse, that my teammates were counting on me, whether it be to strike the last batter out in a baseball game or score a big goal in a hockey game.

Sabbath requires surrender. If we only stop when we are finished with all our work, we will never stop, because our work is never completely done. With every accomplishment there arises a new responsibility... Sabbath dissolves the artificial urgency of our days, because it liberates us from the need to be finished.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.

Lead, follow—what difference does it make? It's all a choice. There's no escape in blame, no comfort in shirking responsibility. We all make choices. We must all face the consequences of those choices.