Quotes About Responsibility

Conscience allows us to do two things: Pass judgment on ourselves; approve or condemn our own conduct.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

Parents have no greater responsibility in this world than the bringing up of their children in the right way, and they will have no greater satisfaction as the years pass than to see those children grow in integrity and honesty and make something of their lives.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.

Because I just decided, if I'm jealous, it's in my hands. I shouldn't pass that off to anyone else.

If you start to pass blame or responsibility on to others, that's when I'm going to start to get really angry.

I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.

The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

The decision to put American lives at risk is a decision that has a very high hurdle to pass.

A woman's body never really belongs to herself. As an infant, my body was my mother's, a detachable extension of her own, a digestive passage clamped and unclamped from her body. My parents would watch over it, watch over what went into and out of it, and as I grew up, I would be expected to carry on their watching by myself.

Being a mother impacts every aspect of your life. It's a rite of passage which gives you an entirely different outlook on things.

My own brand will stand or fall because of me. Dior won't fall if I fall. It will also still stand if I'm not there. I'm coming in there, and it's like a - I don't know the English word - like a passage.

For many of us, owning a home signaled a passage into adulthood that coincided with the start of a career and family.

When I was growing up, a Saturday job was a rite of passage, every kid had one.

You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls.

My father passed away in 1942, and three-four months after his death, I had to start working. There was a responsibility on my shoulders to run the household. It was my duty as the eldest child in the house.

In our time, there are still many, like those in the Good Samaritan story, who being of the religious classes in that time, purposely crossed to the other side of the road, and passed by the injured and bleeding.

What I wanted to do was to earn enough money to pay for my mother's house. When my mother passed away, I wanted to buy it from the rest of my family and keep the house in the family. That was the only reason I even attempted writing for money.

The president of the United States, on Inauguration Day, takes an oath to faithfully execute the laws. Those are the laws that are passed by Congress.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.