Quotes About Responsibility

I was just about half-way through my sixth year, when one morning at breakfast we children were informed to our utter dismay that we could no longer be permitted to run absolutely wild

Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are the irresponsible puppets of fate or chance.

Either you get a chance to be a kid when you are a kid, or you don't grow up.

You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

All it takes is one drink to mess with the way you drive - it clouds your judgment and slows your reflexes. Don't take any chances. It just isn't worth it.

If you're financially responsible, your children have a much better chance to grow up financially responsible.

If I didn't believe that we had a chance of coming to power, then I would have focused on taking care of my three children or gardening.

And there is a chance that everything we did was incorrect, but stasis is itself criminal for those with the means to move, and the means to weave communion between people.

I'm ashamed of what has happened to Canada. And I'm not leaving a $1.5 trillion deficit to my kids. No chance in hell is that happening.

I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

The courage of leadership is giving others the chance to succeed even though you bear the responsibility for getting things done.

Simon Jones was so important and is going to be a big loss. It is a chance for someone like James Anderson to step up to the mark

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death.

You're always a kid around your parents… Unless they're acting like children. Then you don't get the chance.

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

The chance to be a general manager in major-league baseball and for a franchise as storied as this one, probably as storied as the Giants, is great.

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively.

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?