Quotes About Responsibility

It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?

You don't want the decisions about your children's lives to be in my hands or any other judge's hands. We don't know your kids, we don't understand your kids. You're five minutes on my docket. We're going to make the best decision we can, but we don't love them."–Judge Lynn Toler, from the Divorce Court TV show2

People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence

You are either the captain or the captive of your thoughts.

Concern should drive us into action, not into depression

México no es el país de Andrés Manuel López Obrador o Enrique Peña Nieto o Carlos Slim o Emilio Azcárraga o Carlos Romero Deschamps o Elba Esther Gordillo o Felipe Calderón. No es el país de los diputados o los gobernadores o los burócratas o los líderes sindicales o los monopolistas. Es el país de uno. El país nuestro. Ahora y siempre.

Como nos recuerda Savater, la democracia no es un régimen para estar quieto. Y la nuestra se encuentra tan descompuesta que urge estar atentos, vigilantes, prestos para intervenir y corregir y echar del puesto a quien te ha desilusionado

Los idiotas mandan porque otros idiotas los eligen. Los idiotas mandan porque logran erigirse en una especie de diosecillos que siempre tienen la razón, dado que los apoya el pueblo y el pueblo nunca se equivoca.

The solution to the feral cats that already exist is the one no one wants to hear: accepting the fact that feral cats will live among us, and taking responsibility for controlling their numbers by trapping, neutering, and returning them to their outdoor territories.

Kings can choose other than to sin. They can choose death instead.

she isn't mine ... . She is ultimately God's, and I'm simply a steward of her heart for a season.

Jake played the message again, catching the details this time. She was leaving the kids to him? Leaving them here? He swiped the phone off the table, and it hit the wall with a thump. This wasn't what he wanted. Yes, he wanted the kids, but not at Meridith's expense; they needed her. He needed her. Hadn't she listened to his messages? Didn't she know he loved her? If only he could make her believe it. How

The brand-new president felt, as he later wrote, "like the moon, the stars, and all the planets had fallen on me.

It's when we face for a moment the worst our kind can do, and shudder to know the taint in our own selves, that awe cracks the mind's shell and enters the heart.

Nikki said he got Susan pregnant when she was thirteen.' Lizzie nods and cringes and gives a little grunt. 'It's very young.' She grunts non-committally again, shrugs and takes another biscuit. 'I can't explain that you.' 'Isn't he a paedophile then?' 'Yeah, technically. But then he was still with her until she was nineteen, so then what?

She knew that everything he did was wrong and the fault was hers. He pulled his notebook out of his pocket, stupidly.

He was determined to take responsibility but he was just a cog. She'd seen that many times before. It was a belief often borne of a traumatic childhood, it was so much more manageable to believe himself bad than the world.

I hadn't inherited my fate. I didn't need to pass it on to my girls. None of it was inevitable.

If guns kill people," Ivy moved next to her uncle and stared down Kip, "Then pens misspell words, cars cause accidents, and forks make people gain weight.