Quotes About Responsibility

You know what I like to do? I love waking up early, making them breakfast, taking them to school, having time in the morning with them. With six kids, it's like a reality show.

Men should not trust in God as if God did all, and yet labor earnestly as is he himself did all.

Serei na vida futura aquilo que eu próprio houver feito de mim nesta vida;

Se tua mão é motivo de escândalo, corta-a; afirmativa enérgica que seria um absurdo se tomada ao pé da letra. Significa, simplesmente, a necessidade de destruir em si todas as causas de escândalo,

that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. …

Responsibility becomes stressful only when you don't feel strong enough to handle it.

The cigarette gets the credit for everything and the blame for nothing.

The status quo is not a likely option- we will improve our world or we will destroy it

Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain.

our greatest threat today is not a secular culture, or a progressive ideology, or another nation in the world. The greatest threat to our future is what's within the hearts of those of us who imagine ourselves to be Christ-followers.

Men expect too much, do too little.

Leadership is about being a servant first.

As a 22-year Army Veteran who served in Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom, and as a Civilian Advisor to the Afghan Army in Operation Enduring Freedom, I understand both the gravity of giving the order, and the challenge of carrying it out.

Nothing guarantees our freedom. Deny it often enough and one day it will be gone, and we'll not know how or when.

We must affirm freedom and responsibility without denying that we are the product of circumstance, and must affirm that we are the product of circumstance without denying that we have the freedom to transcend that causality to become something which could not even have been provisioned from the circumstances which shaped us.

For years some of us have focused our attention (and worries) on our adult children. We've not only taken on the role of director in the drama of their lives, but the roles of producer, stage manager, dresser, caterer, financier, and scriptwriter as well. We've done countless things for them that they are more than capable of doing for themselves.

Sometimes fear isn't a bad thing. It keeps you alert and aware.

You risked your life - your life that you promised to me - for the greater good.

Somewhere between childhood and adulthood we can lose our sense of conscience if we're not careful.

My mother thinks some disaster has happened if I don't return a phone call from her within twenty-four hours. It's hard to explain that the only chance to return the call will be when a disaster ISN'T happening, stormy being the prevailing climate with surprise outbreaks of calm.

Jake: I'm not offering up excuses of any kind... I was just saying that sometimes shit happens, and I don't have a choice. Natalie: No, Jake, that's where you're wrong. Me getting cancer? True enough, I had no choice. How you treat the ones you love? Well, there, you always have a choice.

Oh, Topher," Veronica said with even less patience than before. "Only a man would think that regrets were a liability.

Eventually kids become grown-ups too, and from there, the world is whatever they choose to make of it.

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?