Quotes About Responsibility

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

My boyfriend used to ask his mother, 'How can I find the right woman for me?' and she would answer, 'Don't worry about finding the right woman- concentrate on becoming the right man.'

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

Love does not cause suffering: what causes it is the sense of ownership, which is love's opposite

The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.

Love is a choice you make from moment to moment.

Every woman needs one man in her life who is strong and responsible. Given this security, she can proceed to do what she really wants to do-fall in love with men who are weak and irresponsible.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.

In society, the emphasis is more on creating a family, but not on will you be a good family man.

It is important to note that in leadership - its not always simply about control or power, but responsibility. Both spouses have the responsibility to own the relationship and the environment they create for themselves and their family.

People won't like me for saying it but a major cause of marital problems today are men who want to remain boys, and women who want to be men.

Marriage itself is consummated with the literal bodily union of husband and wife. From that point on, the husband should regard the wife as his own flesh. If she hurts, he ought to feel the pain. If she has needs, he should embrace those needs as his own. He should seek to feel what she feels, desire what she desires, and in effect, give her the same care and consideration he gives his own body.

It is not marriage that fails; it is people that fail. All that marriage does is to show them up.

A man doesn't own his marriage; he is only the steward of his wife's love.

The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready.

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer

Marriage is low down, but you spend the rest of your life paying for it.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

Its risky in a marriage for a man to come home too late, but it can sometimes pose an even greater risk if he comes home too early.

You may write it on his tombstone, You may cut it on his card, That a young man married is a young man marred

Before marriage a woman is pensive, after marriage, expensive