Quotes About Responsibility

You have to enjoy winning and being part of a successful team, just being a young bloke. But at the same time you want to be back page and not front page news and be spoken about for your cricket and contributing to winning rather than getting it wrong on a night out.

I'm done with my job. It was my job to be the advocate and spokesman for the President of the United States.

There's some aura about a Nobel Prize, there's a prestige, that gives me a responsibility that I didn't have before, that goes beyond my own work, as a spokesman for science.

I never asked to be a spokesperson or public figure. It just happened.

I think I've kind of been mistaken for somebody who's trying to be a spokesperson for animal rights, and the fact is I'm not qualified to be a spokesperson. I am passionate about it, but I'm not trying to make other people do what I do.

It's really important for me to do the fundamentals of this job really, really well. And to let people know that I think the core responsibilities of a member of Congress aren't seeking the national headlines or being the spokesperson on this issue or that issue when you just get there.

Anyone who does not know how to make the most of his luck has no right to complain if it passes by him.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.

I have been blessed with luck, talent and opportunities, now it is my duty to add the hardworking element.

Do not feel sorry for the bad luck of people, because behind everyone's misery is their own stupidity and laziness.

We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

When there are kids involved, there's no such thing as divorce.

Remember, a good marriage is like a campfire. Both grow cold if left unattended.

All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Marriage is a gift from God to us; the quality of our marriages is a gift from us to Him.

If we abandon marriage, we abandon the family.

In Christian marriage, love is not an option. It is a duty.

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks.

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.