Quotes About Responsibility

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil;

Once people get a taste of frontline ministry, they don't let it go easily. Once the church has been let loose, it's hard to put it back in the box.

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.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early do

Kids are OUT of control because their parents are not IN control.

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

Get in control. Live your life the way you want to live it. Don't have the money to do that? Remind yourself that your condition is your own damn fault and then commit and constantly recommit yourself to having the money to live any way you want to live.

No one ever wrote down a plan to be fat, broke, stupid, lazy, unhappy, and mediocre. Those are the things that happen to you when you don't have a plan.

Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It's about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.

Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.

Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.

Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.

Always do your work, Arjuna, but do not claim its yield, neither think of yourself in charge, nor flee the battlefield. Balanced in your duty, without care to win or lose, turn your work to yoga like the learned sages do.

Everything begins when you understand that you, and you above all, are Max Brod: this, for W., is the founding principle. That you (whoever you are) are Max Brod, and everyone else (whoever that might be) is Franz Kafka. Which is to say, you will never understand anyone else and are endlessly guilty before them, and that even with the greatest effort of loyalty, you will betray them at every turn.

We have to remember not to tell them, each of them, that they are our new leader. It would only frighten them off, W. says. No one should ever know he or she is our leader, we agree. Only we should know. And we should follow them in secret.

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Heredity is a splendid phenomenon that relieves us of responsibility for our shortcomings.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Any mom who tells you that she does it effortlessly is not telling the truth.

I believe managing is like holding a dove in your hand. If you hold it too tightly you kill it, but if you hold it too loosely, you lose it.

?nsan ald???n? silen bir varl?kt?r, yaln?zca verdi?inin hesab?n? yapmay? bilir. (s. 146)

If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.