Quotes About Responsibility

Good deeds must be rewarded by the system and crimes be punished - this is the essence of meritocracy.

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

It is how humans are wired to remember. They either take more credit for success or more responsibility for failure than is their due.

Shouldering the blame for failure and conferring credit where it is due comes rarely to most.

Something happens when you feel ownership. You no longer act like a spectator or consumer, because you're an owner. Faith is at its best when it's that way too. It's best lived when it's owned.

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it.

The greatest menace in this country is not the bootlegger, but the college professor who rejects the Bible and undermines the faith of the young.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

Duty cannot exist without faith

The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.

Leaders are the custodians of a nation's ideals, of the beliefs it cherishes, of its permanent hopes, of the faith which makes a nation out of a mere aggregation of individuals.

Whether you want to or not, you do serve as a role model. People will always put more faith in baseball players than anyone else.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.

I believe that today's players who are Christians feel that it's important and their responsibility to acknowledge their faith.

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

The age of innocent faith in science and technology may be over.

democracy is that which affords a rule of living as well as a test of faith.

And if we could get the local leaders to appreciate their responsibility for the environment then they would be able to explain that responsibility to the people of their faith.

I have never made any distinction between those who have taken vows and those who have not; some should not be overburdened in order to spare others.

Now that I have seen I am responsible, faith without deeds is dead.

Writing a novel without being asked seems a bit like having a baby when you have nowhere to live.

The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class. It is not the realisation of a political ideal: it is the discharge of a moral obligation.