Quotes About Responsibility

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

My destiny is to go to heaven, my responsibility is to bring heaven.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

The destiny of human rights is in the hands of all our citizens in all our communities.

We create our fate everyday

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

Statesman only talk of fate when they have blundered

One can not start by saying that our earthly destiny has or has not importance, for it depends upon us to give it importance.

Your behavior determines, to some extent, the destiny of your nation and your group.

Blaming destiny is a poor out for those who don't reach desired destinations.

Our destiny is largely in our hands.

We are the arbiters of our destiny.

As we are, so we do; and as we do, so is it done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

Children... are our legacy. Our responsibility. They are our destiny and we are theirs. The extent to which we fail as parents, we fail as Gods children.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Our community belongs to us and whether it is mean or majestic, whether arrayed in glory or covered in shame, we cannot but share its character and destiny.

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

He cannot complain of a hard sentence, who is made master of his own fate.

No cause has he to say his doom is harsh, who's made the master of his destiny.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.