Quotes About Responsibility

The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can't see you do it and what kind of responsibility do you have when you can do it. What kind of good things can you do or can you do good things from being invisible in this way?

There's a limited number of Messengers, you see, and no guarantee that any will stay a Messenger.

All these new possibilities, so pleasing to contemplate on their own, had sent everyone's minds spinning, for every possibility came at a cost. Even a single departure spelled the end of the Society as they had known it, and each of its members felt a kind of horror at the prospect of being the first to open the door--the one responsible for ending what they had.

One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you -- and you alone -- to whom the others look for final guidance.

And he recalled the ancient adage: Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

Who must do the harsh things? He who can.

uprooted and ruthless thinking which can create nuclear weapons in the name of the advancement of science while caring nothing for the threat it involves to all life on the planet.

Every time that God gives us a child, it's His way of saying He trusts us-trusts us to offer love and to guide the child toward Him.

I can actually feel the house getting dirty. Like I have nerve endings in the carpet. - Allyson

We sat together as a family for dinner at night. And my mother had a job. My dad had a job. But there was always a meal on the table at 6:00, you know.

No word from Max saying whether he was definitely going to come and see me, let alone what time and for how long. As usual he just took it for granted that I would hang about the house all day waiting for him. Clearly nature intended him to be a delivery man, not a university lecturer.

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!' 'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too!

When you're a mother, nobody's saying, 'You're doing a really good job; you're so great; what initiative, mopping up that vomit!

learn to accept that you are going to be responsible for many of your children's tears.

Standards are the responsibility not only of those providing them but of those receiving them, too.

But when things are obviously not right—wherever people are being overcharged and underserved, wherever sloth or downright discourtesy is offered—it is up to each and every one of us to protest.

And so we place the burden of remaining pure on lesser shoulders? … Do you really believe the Jedi should be the tools of such frail [government] institutions?" - Jacen Solo

What, exactly, are you doing here?" "We're trying to prevent a war. Isn't that what Jedi are supposed to do?" ?Mara Jade Skywalker and Alema Rar

Then who do we answer to? Ourselves?" "Of course. Who else can we trust to wield our power? We must follow our own consciences." - Corran and Jacen

Leia: 'Han, what have we done?' Han: 'The same thing we always have, Princess. What we had to.' --Leia Organa Solo and Han Solo

Injustice alway captures the attention of the young," she said. "But as we get older we discover how difficult it is to change the world, and we learn to turn our eyes away from what we can't fix until we no longer see injustice at all.

The most powerful women in Sachaka and all you do is waste time gossiping and matchmaking

Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.