Quotes About Responsibility

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss

When colonists came to grips with their destiny, it was because they had realized liberty and responsibility go together.

God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author.

Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Be a dad. Don't be "Mom's Assistant".... Be a man.... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on. Spend time with your kids.... It won't take away your manhood, it will give it to you.

When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.

Up to a point a person's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and changes in the world about them. Then there comes a time when it lies within their grasp to shape the clay of their life into the sort of thing they wish it to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune or the quirks of fate. Everyone has the power to say, "This I am today. That I shall be tomorrow.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

And at this hour of the day it is no good saying 'Take away this cup'; Having helped to fill it ourselves it is only logic That now we should drink it up.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Let's go get the slug gun and shoot some cats

Our job is to be an awake people...utterly conscious, to attend to our world.

Schop de mensen tot ze een geweten krijgen.

It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather!

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.