Quotes About Responsibility

His game of hide-and-seek about Bull Bun, Centreville, and Manassas Plains was grand, but marred in completeness by the failure of General A. P. Hill to meet his orders for the afternoon of the 28th. As a leader he was fine; as a wheel-horse, he was not always just to himself. He was fond of the picturesque.

General Lee said that the attack of his right was not made as early as expected,—which he should not have said. He knew that I did not believe that success was possible; that care and time should be taken to give the troops the benefit of positions and the grounds; and he should have put an officer in charge who had more confidence in his plan. Two-thirds of the troops were of other commands, and there was no reason for putting the assaulting forces under my charge.

The prospect filled him with regret, but a man had to tend to his own garden first before he could tend to the gardens of others.

Just tell me this: when did a shipload of criminals, desperadoes, and fugitives become such a bunch of do-gooders?" Inara had the answer. "When their captain showed them how.

There aren't just bad people that commit genocide we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history.

I don't think we're yet evolved to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change. The inertia of humans is so huge that you can't really do anything meaningful.

It just so happens that the green religion is now taking over from the Christian religion. I don't think people have noticed that, but it's got all the sort of terms that religions use... The greens use guilt. That just shows how religious greens are. You can't win people round by saying they are guilty for putting (carbon dioxide) in the air.

We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd statement after all that I have said about the way 20th century humans became almost a planetary disease organism. But it has taken [Earth] 2.5 billion years to evolve an animal that can think and communicate its thoughts. If we become extinct she has little chance of evolving another.

The idea that humans are yet intelligent enough to serve as stewards of the Earth is among the most hubristic ever.

Keep in mind that it is hubris to think that we know how to save the Earth: our planet looks after itself. All we can do is try to save ourselves.

If actions were always judged by their consequence, we'd spend half our lives making amends." -Luke Skywalker

Beings may elect their leaders, but the Force has elected us.

The secret of happiness in not in what one likes to do, but in what one has to do.

Stealing a man's wife, that's nothing, but stealing his car, that's larceny.

Churches that do not discipline jeopardize the lives of those who, like Nadab and Abihu (Leviticus 10), disregard God's instructions as they approach him and risk being consumed by an outburst of his holiness (cf. 1 Cor. 11:27–32).

In the end, leaders don't decide who leads. Followers do.

All he wanted or had ever wanted was someone who would take the responsibility and act." Grant, of course, was that someone. "He did not want to know what I proposed to do."7 Grant's account does not ring quite true. After all, the president had vetoed three of his suggestions several weeks earlier.

The payment of taxes gives a right to protection.

Too often, we think of sin as self-contained, point-in-time choices with no interconnection or momentum. But sin refuses to remain contained in the moment it is conceived.

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions." No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

As men we cannot take our eyes off the road for even a second. One bad moment can destroy a lifetime of careful watching. One weak, selfish decision can crash a decade of keeping your eyes on the road. God grant to us Holy Throne-Room clarity at all times in every situation so that what we are really living for doesn't crash before our eyes.

When we fail to assist people responding to the gospel at church, we train our people to repeat that failure at home and at work.

Paternity is a long way from fatherhood.