Quotes About Responsibility

A father should do more - a father should give more to his children than he takes.

You can't just abandon your family because they did something horrible. You've done horrible things to them too.

As always, the subject of Bianca lay between them like a loaded gun – deadly, easy to reach, impossible to ignore. 'I mean your other sister, Hazel … she has discovered that one of the Seven will die. She may try to prevent this. In doing so, she may lose sight of her priorities.

when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

Stupid, Fai Zhang! she would probably scold. If all your friends were drinking poison, would you do it too? Frank went last. The taste of the green liquid

My point, Jason said, is that blaming each other isn't going to solve anything. That's how the Romans and the Greeks got divided in the first place.

Don't blame me for you robbing the king's treasury! I snarled. You are here because you messed up. I prayed to you! Well, perhaps you didn't pray for the right thing at the right time! I yelled. Pray for wisdom before you do something stupid! Don't pray for me to bail you out after you followed your worst instincts!

A surgeon would never hesitate to amputate a rotting hand, no matter how faithfully it had served its owner in the past.

Fair means everyone gets what they need. And the only way to get what you need is to make that happen yourself.

Young man, names are powerful things. You don't just go around using them for no reason.

Not your fault, brother. Kronos does not explode good. Next time we will use a big stick.

one thing I'd learned from being a son of Frey—I couldn't always fight my friends' battles. The best I could do was be there to heal their injuries.

The strix dived at Meg. She dodged aside, whacking the flat of her blade against the bird's tail feathers as it rushed past, sending the unfortunate bird into the opposite wall, where it smacked face-first into the brick, exploding in a cloud of monster dust and feathers. Meg! I said, I told you not to kill it! You'll get cursed! I didn't kill it. It committed suicide against that wall. I don't think the Fates will see it that way. Then let's not tell them.

If my life is going to mean something, I've got to live it myself

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

Sorry we're late," Jason said. "Is this the guy who needs killing?

In this global age, the world's problems are our problems.

The more God gives you, the more responsible he expects you to be.

Nothing shapes your life more than the commitments you choose to make.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

La cualidad esencial para el liderazgo no es la perfección, sino la credibilidad.

Every parent knows that delayed obedience is really disobedience.

Our culture says, "If you don't own it, you won't take care of it." But Christians live by a higher standard: "Because God owns it, I must take the best care of it that I can." The Bible says, "Those who are trusted with something valuable must show they are worthy of that trust.