Quotes About Responsibility

The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.

People say, 'Jay, you're a great guy, you just had a couple of bad nights.' People that have themselves under control don't have a couple of bad nights like that. Plain and simple.

You have everything. A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to. So go.

No one was responsible for the great Wall Street crash. No one engineered the speculation that preceded it. Both were the product of free choice and decision of hundreds of thousands of individuals.

All I've ever wanted to do was be a great dad, and yet there's no stopping this existential mirror that's held up to yourself when you're about to have a kid.

Action is the great business of mankind, and the whole matter about which all laws are conversant.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

Fossil fuels and mining is a short-term gambit. If we develop those resources at the expense of the environmental gold mine that is the Great Barrier Reef, we will all lose in the long run.

I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

If the modern leader doesn't know the facts, he is in grave trouble, but rarely do the facts provide unqualified guidance.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

Don't entrust your future on others' hands. Rather make decisions by yourself with the help of God's guidance. Hold your beliefs so tight and never let go of them!

The journey to happiness involves finding the courage to go down into ourselves and take responsibility for what's there: all of it.

You must come to terms with the reality that nothing outside ourselves, be it people or things is actually responsible for our happiness.

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.

If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.

I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can permit themselves certain negligence to their reputations.

The easiest way to maintain happiness is to lower your expectations of other people and raise them of yourself!

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Emotions will either serve or master, depending on who is in charge.