Quotes About Responsibility

The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

Your highest loyalty after the Lord is to your family. Your first priority after God is your wife then your kids.

Nothing is more important than your family. Nothing comes before your responsibility to watch out for them and provide a home safe from any assault upon them, body or soul.

Men act like men at home when they realize they will be held responsible for how well they represented God to their family.

I guess I've never had anyone expect anything of me before. I feel so overwhelmed at the possibility of letting these men down

A leader and a tyrant are polar opposites.

Power wielders may treat people as things. Leaders may not.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse, and in a Republican Government a greater curse than any other.

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.

Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power.

In framing a government, which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty is this: You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

The Presidency alone unites the conjectures of the public.

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

First, you're not God. Second, this isn't heaven. Third, don't be an ass

Guilt says, "I did a bad thing." Shame says, "I am a bad person.

Jesus must make decisions on his own, choices that probably seem confusing, and, in this case, offensive to those around him. This is often true of all of us when we make truly free decisions.

Must have made for interesting family arguments," said Richard. "Young lady, since you insist on breaking the known laws of physics, there's no dessert for you tonight." Dr. Knowbokov shrugged. "She had an answer for that." "Oh?" "She said it wasn't her fault I didn't know all the laws of physics.

God gived you the seed. But the watering and caring of that seed is up to you.

What Dougie had actually said was You shouldn't get too up your own arse about being a dad. You get a wee man or a wee lassie to play with for a bit and the next thing you know there's this superfluous person knocking about who doesn't seem to know much about you, but it's all your fault.

To marry, to start a family, to accept all the children that come, and to help them in this insecure world, is the best that a man can do.

The Executive is charged officially in the Departments under it with the disbursement of the public money, and is responsible for the faithful application of it to the purposes for which it is raised. The Legislature is the watchful guardian over the public purse. It is its duty to see that the disbursement has been honestly made.