Quotes About Responsibility

You know you're a grown-up when your houseplants are alive and you can't smoke any of them.

Humans live on one-quarter of what they eat; on the other three-quarters lives their doctor.

Guilt sticks like glue.

A crown is no cure for the headache.

Don't make excuses — make good!

Don't do what you'll have to find an excuse for.

Excuses are the tools with which incompetents build to themselves great monuments of Nothing.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

If you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good as another.

You can make excuses or you can get the job done, but you can't do both.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It was our fault, and our very great fault — and now we must turn it to use; We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse! So the more we work and the less we talk the better results we shall get...

Justifying a fault doubles it.

The things you want to do are all up to you— Excuses are sabotage.

Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.

Life isn't a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight, you're probably just drunk.

Fathers who share their children's growing time cannot grow old, cannot grow paunchy and stodgy and stiff even if they wished to, and who wishes to? Let another wear the dignity of the pompous front but not a boy's father. He doesn't have to. He wears the aura of young life.

It is easier to become a father than to be one.

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

Fire and water are good servants but bad masters.

Your own property is concerned when your neighbor's house is on fire.

Don't fling your butt beside the trail and we won't fling your butt in jail.

When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work.

What you call a hero, I call just doing my job.