Quotes About Responsibility

The beauty of obedience is this: it relieves us of responsibility.

Después de orar como si todo dependiera de Dios, necesitamos trabajar como si dependiera de nosotros.

When God puts a passion in your heart, whether it be relieving starvation in Africa or educating children in the inner city or making movies with redemptive messages, that God-ordained passion becomes your responsibility. And you have a choice to make. Are you going to be irresponsibly responsible or responsibly irresponsible?

Potential is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

An untamed tongue is far more dangerous than an untrained sword.

Time comes in every good officer's life when he has to stalk the hallowed halls of the five-sided circus,

I just accept whatever mission you give me, salute, and go do it. That's what I signed up for. I remember that JFK said to bear any burden, pay any price to assure liberty.

McNamara has broken the unofficial contract between civilian leaders and military officers that the military will obey the civilians without question in return for the civilian leadership not squandering military lives.

I'll never stop eating animals, I'm sure, but I do think that for the benefit of everyone, the time has come to stop raising them industrially and stop eating them thoughtlessly.

It's what you do right now that makes a difference.

Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.

I'm not a ranger, I'm a pilot.

In the world's most dangerous country, the job of going after Pablo was the most dangerous position of all.

Why do I always have to be the hero?

If classes were 'sorta boring,' was it because of the student or the teacher?

Instantly Nate realized that he couldn't prepare for class as in the past, 'where I could tune in for a minute, say something smart, earn my credit for the day and tune out.

The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes."--Gene Rodenberry

If I have to hear one more story about what great fun it was working with you 'back in the city,' which I assume he means that slab of concrete and garbage on the Hudson River, I will not be responsible for the removal of his tongue.

This is a classic example of how we become susceptible to unstructured, random trading—because we want to avoid responsibility.

Taking responsibility means acknowledging and accepting, at the deepest part of your identity, that you—not the market—are completely responsible for your success or failure as a trader.

If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.

Would you mind doing this last thing for me? Pack my box with fivedozen liquor jugs?