Quotes About Responsibility

If you don't do it, then you won't have done it.

If you were sexually abused & could not go to your family for support, you deserve to realize that your family failed you fundamentally. Your parents did not provide a safe atmosphere of support & protection for their children, which is a parent's first responsibility. It was not your fault.

I never wanted to go on stage alone because if you mess up, who can you blame?

People have the power to redeem the work of fools.

These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.-- Patti Smith

The artist seeks contact with his intuitive sense of the gods, but in order to create his work, he cannot stay in this seductive and incorporeal realm. He must return to the material world in order to do his work. It's the artist's responsibility to balance mystical communication and the labor of creation.

In his heartlessness he had ignored nature, and how heartless nature was in return.

Nos miramos las manos, que teníamos cogidas. Respiramos hondo y aceptamos nuestra complicidad, no en el robo, sino en la destrucción de una obra de arte. –Al menos, ellos no lo tendrán nunca –dijo. –¿Quiénes son ellos? –pregunté. –Cualquiera excepto nosotros –respondió.

Through it all we held fast to the concept of the clock with no hands. Tasks were completed, sump pumps manned, sandbags piled, trees planted, shirts ironed, hems stitched, and yet we reserved the right to ignore the hands that kept on turning.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine. I had written the line before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions.

Jesus died for somebody's sins but not mine." I had written the line some years before as a declaration of existence, as a vow to take responsibility for my own actions. Christ was a man worthy to rebel against, for he was rebellion itself.

I feel a real responsibility to the images I get attached to.

I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.

I am a mom as well as a senator!

Parents may be free to become martyrs themselves, but it does not follow that they are free, in identical circumstances, to make martyrs of their children.

In April 2009, Brendalee and Julieanna Flint traveled to Washington, D.C., to speak to congressional staffers about the importance of vaccines. "Parents need to understand that when they choose not to vaccinate, they are making a decision for other people's children as well," said Brendalee. "Someone else chose Julieanna's path. It doesn't seem fair that someone like Jenny McCarthy can reach so many people while my little girl has no voice.

Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

Look both ways before you cross the street," she tells me. I start to protest, but then it strikes me that if I am very lucky I will one day be able to offer annoying safety tips to my own children one day.

Look both ways before you cross the street," she tells me. I start to protest, but then it strikes me that if I am very lucky I will be able to offer annoying safety tips to my own children one day.

The point is that, whatever other people's failings might be, you are the one to shoulder the responsibility.

Every man is the author of his own life.

Guilt kept me going. It was impossible not to blame myself for what had happened, but even guilt was a comfort. It was a human feeling, a sign that I was still attached to the same world that other men lived in.

I make no excuse for what happened. Drunkenness is never more than a symptom, not an absolute cause, and I realize that it would be wrong of me to try to defend myself. Nevertheless, there is at least the possibility of an explanation.

Do you know what happened the last time a nation listened to a bush?" Honey asks. No one says a word. "Its people wandered in the desert for forty years.