Quotes About Responsibility

PREFER DEATH TO a lying word, for the ripple-effect of its plunder is worse. When a man dies, he dies alone— but many are slain with the lie and its curse. —AVRAHAM IBN HASDAI (C. 915–990)

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

It is not permissible for us to go on destroying the family life when we know that we are destroying it.

When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven't any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn't face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

The one phrase you can use is that success has a thousand fathers, and failure is an orphan.

In the United States of America there are twenty-seven million people under twenty-one years of age who receive no Christian training at all. Juvenile crime in the big cities is tremendous—sometimes it seems absolutely out of control. Every week one million people are dying without Jesus. In one minute, eighty-five people pass into eternity. In just the brief span of a church service hundreds are passing out into the presence of God. Does that mean anything to you?

Talent is an accident of genes — and a responsibility.

From my experience, I think that every actor has to make sure that they're in charge of their own career somehow or other.

You cannot take credit for your blessings, but you can certainly commit to not f---ing them up.

Your choices have more consequences than your impulses.

Both figuratively and literally, entitled people expect your signature on the front of the checks, and theirs on the back.

When we choose things that are evil and stupid, then we pay the cost of lost opportunities to do something good—something wise and unselfish.

Graham had this sinking feeling in his stomach. It felt like Paris all over again. If Lanie died this whole affair would blow up in his face. Hollywood would want a scapegoat, and he fit the bill to a T. His having tried to help wouldn't matter. The star machine would crucify him.

she did everything as if God were watching her: never threw bread on the fire (which was feeding the devil)

As soon as you were born you were captured by fresh air that you screamed against the minute you came out. Then you were roped in by a factory, had a machine slung around your neck, and then you were hooked up by the arse with a wife.

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities.

Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.

Always ask yourself, "Would I be proud of this if it appeared all over the Internet tomorrow?

mature great-nephew.

Blame someone else and get on with your life.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

I could get away with not taking care of myself as a bachelorette but as a mom I can't.

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.