Quotes About Responsibility

Or the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Speaking on NBC's Meet The Press, Craig told Tim Russert: "The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy - a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state, who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy."

It began to dawn on me that perhaps my country needed me more at home than overseas.

I go out to dinner, I wind up I with a homework assignment.

That's one thing I really hate about smokers: the world is their ashtray.

The only thing that hurts more than paying an income tax is not having to pay an income tax. —Lord Thomas R. Duwar

The war on drugs is wrong, both tactically and morally. It assumes that people are too stupid, too reckless, and too irresponsible to decide whether and under what conditions to consume drugs. The war on drugs is morally bankrupt.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

This is MY FATHER'S House - not a bank!!!' 'What's got into Him??' 'Low blood sugar?' 'Hey Judas - get the coins!

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Professional writers don't have muses; they have mortgages.

The Talmud stresses that a group's behavior comes from the top: "The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation. If the leader is just, the nation is just; if the leader is unjust, that nation is also unjust and will be punished for the sins of the leader."' The term nation applies to any group of people, including companies.

Get a dog, and always be the person they think you are.

He felt extremely responsible for his fans. That's why, instead of showing the best side of himself to them, he went the other way. He said, 'No, I have to be honest -let them know what I am made of. I'm not all that perfect or anything and they have to know that.' (Larry Kane quoting Yoko Ono about John)

NED: Why can't you just say yes? BEN: Because we have a committee. NED: But you're the senior partner and I'm your brother. BEN: I fail to see what bearing that has on the matter. You're asking me to ask my partners to give up income that would ordinarily come into their pocket.

Do you know that when Hitler's Final Solution to eliminate the Polish Jews was first mentioned in the Times it was on page twenty-eight. And on page six of the Washington Post.

NED: Nobody ever listens. We're not exactly a bunch that knows how to play follow the leader. EMMA: Maybe they're just waiting for somebody to lead them. NED: We are. What group isn't?

The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.

Halfway around the world, Marines were walking into an ambush, in a firefight, or fighting hand-to-hand in a desperate life-and-death struggle. Here we were, laughing and drinking as if none of that was happening, but I knew it was, and I knew what it felt like. I felt ashamed!

The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.

It's no different in the spiritual realm. Our failures don't have to define us. It all depends on how we respond. If we curse our luck, blame others, and fail to take responsibility, we'll continue to fail. But if we face the facts, accept responsibility, and humbly get back on the right path, our failures can lay the groundwork for future success.

Empowerment without a platform is like responsibility without authority. In too many of our churches, we offer discipleship training and leadership training without providing any significant platform for people to do the things they've been trained to do. This is especially true in our larger churches.

And if I, as pastor, have failed to do my part to train my leaders to lead, what right do I have to complain about the way they do their job or make their decisions?

Yet, ironically, the one thing most people think accountability groups do best is what they don't do well at all. They're not good at preventing sin.

We take too much credit when the walls of Jericho cave in and too much blame when our Ai's can't be conquered.