Quotes About Responsibility

we've built a society that gets what it needs from the Earth and ecosystems but does far too little to maintain the health of the ecosystems we depend on, which are quite literally the life-support systems of the planet.

Because some people never grow up, or not in a way that allows them to develop the courage of their convictions.

If a runner is scoring the winning run in a game (because it is the last half of the last inning of the game and his run will put his team ahead), the batter in that play must also touch first base. The batter cannot give up running because he thinks his team has already won.

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good versus evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good versus doing nothing. In going

To see what must be done and not to do it, is a crime.

Global warming is by its very nature a threat, but it is a deadly threat only because it fails to trigger the brain's alarm. It leaves us sleeping in a burning bed.

My own daughter a streetwalker! If you have any consideration for your parents at all you'll do the only decent thing. What's that? You'll leave this house and not come back until you're a virgin.

You're openin' a mighty big can of worms, Judson Moon!

If a teacher said they needed a kid to jump off the roof, Andrea would

America must be in really bad shape if you elected me president. You better get it together and find some other qualified people to run this country or we'll all be in big trouble.

Clean up! Clean up! Everybody everywhere. Clean up! Clean up! Everybody, do your share.

Oh, one more thing, A.J. Clean your room. It's a pigsty.

When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.

If you want to do something today to radically improve the United States of America, walk on the right.

The American people have a nasty habit of waiting until it's far too late to start giving a shit. By and large, your average eligible voter tunes in to politics once every two or four years because they have been scared, shocked, bullied, cajoled, stimulated, seduced, suckered, or outright fear fucked by one or more extremities of the hideous mutant that is our electoral process.

I used to be the errand boy for the Guardians of the Universe. It was a thankless job.

Doing nothing with even one lead is like flushing money down the toilet. It is a serious lapse in judgment and waste of precious resources every time you fail to follow-up with every lead or every customer.

Life isn't always fair. Learn to deal with it. You can't just go around hurting people every time you get angry. You need to consider how your actions affect others. Don't see threats where they don't exist. You need to know that controlling your anger does not make you a sissy.

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans."  -- Peter Drucker

The bias is often subtle, or even subconscious. People at HubSpot rarely talk about age bias, and when they do, they're not talking about older workers being treated poorly. They're talking about how unfair it is that people in their early twenties are not given enough responsibility, just because they're young.

I tell my board as little as possible," he says. "I treat them like mushrooms, I keep them in the dark and feed them shit. I don't want them meddling in my business and telling me what to do.

During my time at HubSpot, I was shocked to see how badly managed the company was and how packs of inexperienced twenty-something employees were being turned loose and given huge responsibility with little or no oversight. In the world of start-ups that is now the norm, not the exception.

Based on the gift each one has received, use it to serve others, as good managers of the varied grace of God" (1 Pet. 4:10).

buried somewhere deep inside their souls. When God found them hiding in the garden, they were clutching clumps of leaves against their groins and blaming everyone but themselves for their failure. God's sovereign grace blossomed in that new-fallen garden for the same reason grace fills people's lives today. The untamed God gives undeserved mercy to unresponsive sinners. God shows grace, not due to any human deed or desire, but