Quotes About Responsibility

A man has to accept responsibility for his life, no matter how hard it gets. That's what sets him apart from animals.

As a human being, I know I can never hope to have the depth and breadth of perspective to know whether any of my actions will ultimately harm or heal.

And, as an adult, you have the freedom and the access to indulge in much greater forms of self-destruction than a two-year-old could ever have. You can drink and use drugs. You can smoke. You can be promiscuous. You can kill yourself if you want to, run into the streets at night, choose to eat everything in sight, or starve yourself. It's dangerous when the raw black-and-white emotions of a child are harbored in an adult's mind and body.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

Hurt me once, shame on you; hurt me twice, shame on me.

Every person—including you—has been given a gift by God. Every gift is of immense value, no matter how it might compare to someone else's gifts. No one got a cheap or valueless gift from God. Every gift has the capacity to multiply (and is meant to do so). The gifts are essentially "on loan," meant to be stewarded.

I think having children is the most amazing thing.

We know it, but chose forget it. Is too much hard to bear. Yesterday, you made me realize that: we chose forget.

a woman with young children is not a woman but a mammal, salve, croon, water carrier

It shows?" "That you don't want to owe anything? Yeah, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. But sometimes it's about the other person.

He says in dirty hands flowers will die.

By the time three-thirty rolled around, Caroline had no idea how Marjorie possibly kept up with these two little bundles of energy.

I used to babysit Brooke Callahan, Claire thought with some dismay. Could the girl really be old enough to legally operate that stethoscope?

The hardest part of being a parent is accepting that not every decision you made for your children benefited them as much as you hoped it would. You do your best and pray it's enough to help them become decent, well-adjusted humans making a difference in the world.

I figure a kid who takes that much pride in doing the small jobs the right way won't fail when it comes to the big ones.

be here if she hadn't decided to have another baby.

He looked around at the chaos of the jacked-up children and then back at his nervous daughter. "I believe I'll stay, if you don't mind." What if she did mind? What if the idea of him watching her for the next two hours made her more nervous than a turkey at Thanksgiving?

He's got two. Different mamas, of course. Six months apart. They're the cutest little things. Spittin' image of their daddy. You should see them.

Charlie gave Jacques a tentative pat or two as if he hadn't been around animals very often. Too bad, she thought. In her experience, kids were generally a little more responsible and a little less self-absorbed if they had another creature depending on them.

In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.

To tolerate it, in however slight a degree, to show leniency, however leniently disposed, would entail having recourse to still harsher measures to-morrow.

In doing this they are striking at the very foundations of the throne. These fools do not perceive that if that throne falls over, it is they who stand nearest to it who will be crushed.

Everything has become too easy for our young people, and we make things worse by lying to them. We don't help them face reality. Teachers and schools lie to children and parents all the time.

they will naturally focus only on dealing with a few scapegoats, not just because the system is harder to change, but also because if politicians traced the fault lines, they would find a few running through themselves.