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Quotes About Responsibility

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
~ Thomas S. Monson
Un militaire sans formation politique n'est qu'un criminel en puissance
~ Thomas Sankara
No serpent's tooth, they say, has the sharpness of an ungrateful child, but no serpent's tooth has the sharpness of many an unappreciated mother.
~ Thomas Savage
The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
~ Thomas Sowell
One of the sad signs of our times is that we have diminished those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain
~ Thomas Sowell
Journalists cannot serve two masters. To the extent that they take on the task of suppressing information or biting their tongue for the sake of some political agenda, they are betraying the trust of the public and corrupting their own profession.
~ Thomas Sowell
Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?
~ Thomas Sowell
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.
~ Thomas Sowell
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
~ Thomas Sowell
In the United States today, there is a pervasive tendency to treat children as adults, and adults as children. The options of children are thus steadily expanded, while those of adults are progressively constricted. The result is unruly children and childish adults.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
~ Thomas Szasz
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
~ Thomas Szasz
Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.
~ Thomas Szasz
For one of these responsibilities is to promote the welfare, including the spiritual welfare, of all created persons; God could no more choose to create persons without accepting that responsibility than human parents can choose to raise children without acquiring an obligation to promote their welfare.
~ Thomas Talbott
Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to forgive others, we have an obligation to forgive; we have no right, that is, not to forgive. But why , I would ask of them, has God commanded us to forgive others? Is it not precisely because, given the Christian view of the world, forgiveness is the just and proper response to sin? Is it not because the sinner, who yet retains the image of God, deserves forgiveness?
~ Thomas Talbott
Who goeth a borrowing Goeth a sorrowing.
~ Thomas Tusser
Now our job, our duty, our responsibility to ensure the safety and security of our citizens cannot be complete unless we guarantee health care security for our citizens.
~ Thomas Vilsack
The greatest individual and collective responsibility of everybody in the organisation is to build brand reputation and value through everything that thay say and do everyday.
~ Thomas W. Fraser
There exists in this country a serious personal motivational problem related to undesirable attitudes toward care of public and private property, quality of work, integrity, accepting responsibility, serving the public, working in private industry, accepting change, etc.," one memorandum said. "The foremost problem facing the Kingdom may well be to modify the value system as it relates to achieving appropriate personal enlightenment.
~ Thomas W. Lippman
Children can't respond properly to warnings if they don't hear them clearly in the first place. Finally,
~ Thomas W. Phelan
Your kids are little. Both their bodies and their brains are still growing. No
~ Thomas W. Phelan
The point behind 1-2-3 Magic is that parents are ready for anything, rather than worrying what the kids are going to do next. The message is: "I love you, and it's my job to train and discipline you. I don't expect you to be perfect, and when you act up, this is what I will do.
~ Thomas W. Phelan