Quotes About Responsibility

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

We generate our own environment. We get exactly what we deserve. How can we resent the life weve created for ourselves? Whos to blame, whos to credit, but us? Who can change it anytime we wish, but us?

Then you can blame it on your parents,' I said, smiling. 'Won't that be a relief?

That was Dad's life, and I was the birdshit on his windshield.

Being someone's responsibility makes them hate you.

Remember with whom thou hast to do: what canst thou expect from dust but levity; or from corruption, but defilement(33)?

I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).

Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and let love have dominion in all your government, that your inferiors may easily find, that it is their interest to obey you. For interest and self-love are the natural rulers of the world.

Es algo temible ser un creyente nominal sin estar santificado, pero es más terrible ser un predicador no santificado.

O]ne duty may be said to be too long, when its shuts out another, and then it ceaseth, indeed, to be a duty(274).

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

That physician is no better than a murderer, that negligently delayeth till his patient be dead or past cure (389).

If God had bid you give them all your estates to own them, or lay down your lives to save them, sure you would have refused, when you will not bestow a little breath to save them? Is not the soul of a husband, or wife, or child, or neighbour, worth a few words? It is worth this, or it is worth nothing. . . . If you did know their misery, you would now do more to bring them out of hell (409). (III.XIII)

Take heed to yourselves, lest your example contradict your doctrine, and lest you lay such stumbling–blocks before the blind, as may be the occasion of their ruin; lest you unsay with your lives, what you say with your tongues; and be the greatest hindrances of the success of your own labors. It

remember, you cannot decline and neglect your duty, to your own hurt alone; many will be losers by it as well as you.

It is no small matter to stand up in the face of a congregation and deliver a message of salvation or damnation as from the living God in the name of our Redeemer.

There've been more campaigns sunk by people who feel they've gotta write a memo ... so when you put anything on paper, just assume it's gonna be on the front page the next day. If it can't be—don't write it.

No man is demolished but by himself.

When spiritual leaders have done their jobs, the people around them have encountered God and obeyed his will.

If they were honest, many parents would confess that their primary reasons for not allowing their child to quit something is because of financial reasons, or personal reluctance to get involved, or both.