Quotes About Responsibility

Marcus advises us to perform with resoluteness the duties we humans were created to perform. Nothing else, he says, should distract us. Indeed, when we awaken in the morning, rather than lazily lying in bed, we should tell ourselves that we must get up to do the proper work of man, the work we were created to perform.

And why is self-discipline worth possessing? Because those who possess it have the ability to determine what they do with their life. Those who lack self-discipline will have the path they take through life determined by someone or something else, and as a result, there is a very real danger that they will mislive.

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.

All of us who professionally use the mass media are the shapers of society. We can vulgerize that society. We can brutalize it. Or we can help lift it onto a higher level.

Public opinion is no excuse for betraying your conscience. If the people don't like what he does, the can vote him out next election. - Christina McCall

We always have a choice, Colonel Zuko. From the day we're born. The choice to do good. Or the choice to do evil. - President Kyler

The State in organising security should not stifle incentive, opportunity, responsibility; in establishing a national minimum, it should leave room and encouragement for voluntary action by each individual to provide more than that minimum for himself and his family.

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires.

I trust God speaks through me,' said Bush the younger in 2004. 'Without that, I couldn't do my job.

Our leaders are cruel because only those willing to be inordinately cruel and remorseless can hold positions of leadership in the foreign policy establishment. People capable of expressing a full human measure of compassion and empathy toward faraway powerless strangers do not become president of the United States, or vice president, or secretary of state, or national security adviser or secretary of the treasury. Nor do they want to.

We bomb homes, and these people have families -- and the U.S. refuses to apologize for these civilian deaths. The absence of concern makes their actions almost equal to a deliberate targeting of civilians.

No human being is entirely innocent

Finally, everyone who plays a part is, tacitly at least, implicated in the outcome.

As for the rest of the emotions grieving people feel, treat them seriously, but don't consider them as something you personally caused. Don't get defensive or argumentative.

Do whatever you can to restore people's sense of having some control over their situation.

Part You can give each person a part to play in both the plan and the outcome. People need a tangible way to contribute and participate.

Never do today what you can Put off till tomorrow.

The way we treat the land is the way we treat each other, and the ways of humans to each other are as ecologically important as a water table.

We would be better to focus more on acts and less on looks. Hedging puts us into the landscape intimately. It makes us pay attention. When we pay attention, we are repaid in many ways.

When you take complete responsibility for your thoughts and actions and embrace your natural ability to create your reality, all things are possible.

In dreams begin responsibility.

In dreams begins responsibility.

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

Things said or done long years ago,Or things I did not do or sayBut thought that I might say or do,Weigh me down, and not a dayBut something is recalled,My conscience or my vanity appalled.