Quotes About Responsibility

Accountability is not about blame, it's not about being wrong, it is about owning the choices you've made, or are making, that create the results you have in your life. And you do create everything in your life.

There are certain things we owe our little sisters.

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.

The worst was yet to come, he knew. Already he could feel a world of trouble waiting for him behind the next door, but the worst that could have happened was also already behind him; the thing not done, which could have been – which he would have had to live with for the rest of his life.

We must be doing something right.' 'Tis mostly your doing,' Furlong admitted. 'Where am I ever only away all day then home to the table and up to bed and gone again before they rise.

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

To recognize understand and learn how to protect a new ecosystem requires much more time and attention than it does to exploit and destroy one.

Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business.

You must never so much think as whether you like it or not, whether it is bearable or not; you must never think of anything except the need, and how to meet it.

Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there.

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.

You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Robert G. Ingersoll was a great man. a wonderful intellect, a great soul of matchless courage, one of the great men of the earth -- and yet we have no right to bow down to his memory simply because he was great. Great orators, great soldiers, great lawyers, often use their gifts for a most unholy cause. We meet to pay a tribute of love and respect to Robert G. Ingersoll because he used his matchless power for the good of man. {Darrow's eulogy for Ingersoll at his funeral}

My child, I've given you my name. Don't take it in vain. Keep it clean. Let it mean something when you are called a Christian. Don't let my name fall into disrepute because of you.

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.

More than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Oh, I don't think Tom Sowell would tell anybody to join the administration. That's not his style. But I think his attitude has always been if it had to be done he'd prefer me to do it than somebody else.