Quotes About Responsibility

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Such people are their own punishment.

Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

You cannot carry water on both shoulders.

You put things off and then one morning you wake up and say—today I will change the oil in my truck.

Watch it now. You're taking liberties. Don't make things any worse than they are. Don't let your mouth write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

Webster Spooner carried my bag upstairs and showed me to my room. He said he would keep an eye on the car. I didn't see how he was going to do that from his box. I knew he was a sound sleeper. The woman Ruth had almost had to kill him to get him awake.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

The wicked flee when none pursueth.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

Comments are free but facts are sacred.

But just as the capacity to forget is a gift of grace, so memory, the recalling of the lessons we have learnt, is an essential element in responsible living." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

The size of a challenge should never be measured by what we have to offer. It will never be enough. Furthermore, provision is God's responsibility, not ours. We are merely called to commit what we have - even if it's no more than a sack lunch.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.

For a member to say, 'I'm a lame duck' violates political science 101.

Wealth that is not shared is not truly wealth,

Acknowledge and own up to problems and people will trust you. That will be helpful the next time. If you blame somebody else or try to sugarcoat the problem, you may get away with it once. But everybody makes mistakes more than once, and any leeway you might gain from fudging it the first time will quickly disappear. Explain the situation, accept responsibility, fix it, move forward.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

Uncalled for excuses are practical confessions.

You have a responsibility to someone who loves you.

We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

A Bible that's falling apart usually belongs to a person who isn't.

If I win, I win, and if I lose, I win because my responsibility is to obey God and to leave the consequences up to him.