Quotes About Responsibility

You can either vote by voting or vote by not voting. If you don't vote, someone else's vote counts more.

Grandmother: A babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television set.

You can find inspiration from others but determination is solely your responsibility.

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."

Willful waste brings woeful want.

We are too busy mopping the floor to turn off the faucet.

Martin Luther King represents a voice, a vision, and a way... I am convinced that the whole future of America depends on how seriously we take this voice, this vision, and this way.

Apathy among the Negroes themselves is also a factor. Even where polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide.

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs in the world, since the payment is pure love.

The one thing children wear out faster than shoes is parents.

Parents have to realize that there is a stranger in your house. If you came home and you found a strange man… teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell them all kinds of products, you'd kick him right out of the house. But here you are — you come in and the TV is on, and you don't think twice about it.

...but people become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them...

Did you read what this writer dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it. This should be a lesson to Presidents to either behave themselves or not to keep a diary.

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice President. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, "How's the President?"

In this epoch of ours, many of us are watching with a distressed heart the evidence of a flight from freedom. Most people take liberty for granted, when they enjoy it, and do not realize that they have to relentlessly fight for preserving it.

Spouse: someone who'll stand by you through all the trouble you wouldn't have had if you'd stayed single.

Every day is Earth Day.

Don't blow it — good planets are hard to find.

God bless America. Let's save some of it.

He who physics himself poisons a fool.

One doctor makes work for another.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

If you need 144 rolls of toilet paper for a 14-day quarantine you probably should've been seeing a doctor long before COVID-19.