Quotes About Responsibility

Focus on what you can do rather than stress about what you have no control over.

God, in His wisdom, has so linked the whole human family together that any violence done at one end of the chain is felt throughout its length.

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

Fear bespeaks of wisdom. Recognition of responsibility.

Not only virtue, but also insight, not only sanctity but also wisdom, are the duties and tasks of mankind.

Once sent out, a word takes wings beyond recall.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.

When a king begins to act like a king, it is not long before someone else is king! Serving is a way we can place value on one another. A wise man is a server.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds.

If I am unhappy, it has been of my own making, and that very thing shows that I can be happy if I will.

When you give something to a man and expect nothing — do not even expect the man to be grateful — his ingratitude will not tell upon you, because you never expected anything, never thought you had any right to anything in the way of a return. You gave him what he deserved; his own Karma got it for him; your Karma made you the carrier thereof.

Each is great in his own place, but the duty of one is not the duty of the other.

A fool may buy all the books in the world, and they will be in his library; but he will be able to read only those that he deserves to; and this deserving is produced by Karma. Our Karma determines what we deserve and what we can assimilate. We are responsible for what we are; and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

There is a conflict in Arjuna's heart between his emotionalism and his duty.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?

In every country it is the priest who is conservative, for two reasons — because it is his bread and because he can only move with the people. All priests are not strong. If the people say, "Preach two thousand gods," the priests will do it. They are the servants of the congregation who pay them. God does not pay them. So blame yourselves before blaming the priests. You can only get the government and the religion and the priesthood you deserve, and no better.