Quotes About Responsibility

Failing to use our life opportunities wisely and lovingly is a rejection of God.

The important thing is to realize one's potential here and now. We are not to rely on a desire to escape from one's responsibilities of being God's people, here and now.

Being happily and successfully married is generally not so much a matter of marrying the right person as it is being the right person.

You can't be neutral on a moving train.

The baby is great. My wife and I have just started potty training. Which I think is important, because when we want to potty train the baby we should set an example.

Do not blame others for your unhappiness, for everything is due to cause and effect.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

To say that all men need the gods therefore is to say, in part at least, that we are the kinds of beings who are at our best when we find ourselves acting in ways that we cannot - and ought not - entirely take credit for.

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life – the sick, the needy, and the handicapped.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920s and 1930s when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.

The moral test of government is how it treats people in the dawn of life, the children, in the twilight of life, the aged, and in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy, and the handicapped

Van één ding zijn we zeker : dat we mensen zijn, stof onder de sterren. En dat alle menselijke geluk en alle menselijke leed door mensen veroorzaakt wordt.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

"Every Man a King." Every man to eat when there is something to eat; all to wear something when there is something to wear. That makes us all a sovereign.

A man is not a dictator when he is given a commission from the people and carries it out.

God called, 'Come to my feast.' Then what happened? Rockefeller, Morgan, and their crowd stepped up and took enough for 120 million people and left only enough for 5 million of all the other 125 million to eat. And so many millions must go hungry and without these good things God gave us unless we call on them to put some of it back.

At an early age I made up my mind never to have bills when I grew up. I could not know then that this determination would extend eventually to the point of not being married or having a family of my own.

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, your end of the boat is sinking.

However aware we are that a certain fate cannot be avoided, we cannot help blaming the person who gets that monster to its feet...and leads it into the room.

That's all about the natural order of things, the idea of nature protecting children but also children protecting nature.

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope that, with the job I'm in now, they are, if not proud, at least unembarrassed by it. I must say, my three are most agreeable children, who do nothing but delight me.