Quotes About Responsibility

Those who choose to be servants know the most about being free.

a person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

Life gave you problems. It was your responsibility to rise above them.

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Mothers don't let your daughters grow up to be models unless you're present.

If God has given us the gift of creativity, 'much is required' in the way of our using it to his glory.

Some cases aren't yours to solve.

sometimes you have to be the grown-up of your life and tell your inner child, who is kicking and screaming, "Get your shoes on. This is not optional. We have a play date.

You're middle-aged, Daddy. What are you going to do with the second half of your life? Because, I'm telling you now, if you run through all of your money before you're eighty, don't come looking to me for a handout 'cuz I'll just put you in an old folks' home and go party.

Flex organizations do more than enable their players to worm out of accountability through their might-be-state, might-be-private status; they supplant the state.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

Does vengeance or blame ease the sorrow of heart-ache? We all make mistakes. Life can't be lived without harm to others.

I exist not to be loved and admired, but to love and act. It is not the duty of those around me to love me. Rather, it is my duty to be concerned about the world, about man.

No man can avoid doing the things he was made to do when the time comes for him to do them."

No man can avoid to do what he was made to do when the time comes for him to do it.

No true...father would be unconcerned about discord in his family that may cause it to disintegrate in his absence... "

A good husband is healthy and absent.

The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

Don't stay long when the husband is not at home.

My personal pride must not be allowed to stand in the way of my duty to the country. If I am only half efficient, I should turn the office over to the vice president. If it is going to take much time for me to recover my health and strength, the country cannot afford to wait for me.

Our biggest threat is not an asteroid about to crash into us, something we can do nothing about. Instead, all the major threats facing us today are problems entirely of our own making. And since we made the problems, we can also solve the problems.

In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. That's increasingly the case in Los Angeles where I come from. So that wealthy people in much of the world are insulated from the consequences of their actions." [ Why Societies Collapse , ABC Local, July 17, 2003]