Quotes About Responsibility

Free men can easily become enslaved, if they let others do their thinking and talking, instead of using their own heads.

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

Actions always have consequences!

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inactions, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

The time is not there for us to act any more, the time we waited for is here right now for us to act brightly and create a bright future, for the future coming generations.

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

I am fifty-two years of age. I am a bishop in the Anglican Church, and a few people might be constrained to say that I was reasonably responsible. In the land of my birth I cannot vote...

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, the emptiness of ages in his face, and on his back the burden of the world.

In a man's middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.

Youngsters of the age of two and three are endowed with extraordinary strength. They can lift a dog twice their own weight and dump him into the bathtub.

We need to let our children grow up to face the world armed with knowledge, with much more knowledge than we ourselves had at their age. It is scary, but the alternative is worse.

I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink.

Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

The primary function of the creative use of language - in our age - is to try to constantly restore words to their meanings, to keep the living tissue of responsibility alive.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

I don't want to leave this mess around my children to clean up. I want to swing absolutely as hard as I can to straighten things out before they get to the age where it starts hurting them.