Quotes About Responsibility

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so you can stock up on capri pants for next summer or afford a leather interior in the new SUV. As long as you don't own the responsibility of being blessed with resources so that you can give to those around you, then you can stay focused on getting more for yourself.

La preocupación es el resultado de tratar de llevar una carga que jamás tenía como destino nuestra espalda. Si los cristianos ateos tratamos de hacer tal cosa, estamos admitiendo que en realidad no confiamos en Dios.

serving isn't something we do. A servant is who we're called to be.

Accountability is not easy, and it doesn't come naturally. But in the long run it's incredibly necessary, and when you do it right, it's nothing but good.

Accountability requires the internal strength of honesty. We have to be strong enough to hear the honest questions and answer them honestly. We have to be strong enough to ask honest questions and hear honest answers, reacting appropriately and with grace and respect. Without honesty, there is no accountability, pure and simple.

It's true that if you're a leader but no-one is following you then you're actually not leading; you're just out for a walk. But it's also true that you're not really a leader unless you go for a walk because you know it's right and you're willing to have no-one come with you. Henry

Sons, they have their own plans, but a daughter or granddaughter, they will love you forever and take care of you in your old age.

I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?

When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . ." "Amen to that, and the other?" "Never go after a man to arrest him unless you are certain you are legally right, but then arrest him or die.

I thought about the damage we all did in life simply by being ourselves and getting up in the morning.

Small chains wound their way through the trigger guards with little bronze locks at the end of each row. It was like a chain gang for weapons. Some of them might be good, some of them might be bad, but there was no way to tell until somebody picked them up.

You know the difference between firefighters and Boy Scouts?" "What?" "Boy Scouts have adult supervision.

Words are important, no matter what the language—they are perhaps one of the most powerful things we have. Words can preserve life or invoke death and should be handled with the same care as any deadly weapon.

None of us can help you any more than you can help yourself—have you never thought that this

It was my father who taught me to talk to animals.He said they understand a hell of a lot more than we think they do. I remember him speaking to the horses he shod in a low and reassuring voice, explaining what he was doing to them; he said it was one of the things we owed them for their absolute, unreserved, unswerving loyalty. He said the outside of a horse is always good for the inside of a man.

50 percent of police shot in the country on an annual basis shoot themselves. I'm not talking about suicide, but about officers who accidentally fire into their off-hand while drawing or into the strong-side leg while reholstering. Another 30 percent are shot by other cops, and 10 percent after that get shot by people who take their weapons away from them.

The best reason I can think of for having children is that it is a marvelous excuse for taking naps." I

famous quote from the Lakota chief Red Cloud states that men do that which is difficult while women do that which is impossible

The cowboy in the middle has nothing to do. No responsibility, except to avoid the odd scrotal meeting with the gear shift.

I wondered about all the individuals wandering around out there who were in serious need of the administration of a dreadful ass-kicking and weren't likely to get it.

That's the problem with guilt, it's a two-way street; our children have to live with the things we do, and sometimes we have to live with their actions.

President Bush spent last night calling world leaders to support the war with Iraq and it is sad when the most powerful man on earth is yelling, 'I know you're there, pick up, pick up.

As it pulled away from the wreckage, he stood up to look back at the sinking plane. The coxswain shouted at him: "Sit down, you!" Then, realizing who it was, he tried to apologize, but Nimitz told the coxswain that he was absolutely correct, and obediently sat.