Quotes About Responsibility

Memory says: Want to do right? Don't count on me.

You breathe upon us now through solid assertions of yourself: teaspoons, goblets, seas of carpet, a forest of old plants to be watered an old man in an adjoining room to be touched and fed. And all this universe dares us to lay a finger anywhere, save exactly as you would wish it done.

I cannot hide my anger to spare your guilt.

I experienced my depressions, bursts of anger, sense of entrapment, as burdens my husband was forced to bear because he loved me.

I'm passing the baton on son, you go run with it.

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

The problem is there's still a big kid inside me who likes to have fun. I am passionate about my cricket and I love my family, but I'm also a kid and maybe I need to grow up... And maybe I don't.

Heaven has given to every human being the power of controlling his passions, and if he neglects or loses it, the fault is his own, and he must be answerable for it.

Listening is an activity. It's not passive. We are creating the world by listening all the time.

Passivity is the same as defending injustice.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.

You don't need a passport to work on human rights.

In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

The darkest aspects of imperialism are still very much prevalent in many cultures around the world; hundreds of years later, and we have a collective responsibility to encounter the deeds of our past.

If someone says they're going to ring me at 10 o'clock and it's 10 past and they haven't rung, I'm irritated.

I'll demand of myself and my own government what, in the past, I insisted of others.

Being a pastor is pressure because we have to counsel people.

Pastor is a driver who doesn't respect other drivers.

I take my role seriously as a pastor.

As a leader, you get a pat on the back when you make a hard choice.

An employer of mine back in the '80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It's a basic tell of character.

I think I've shown patches of being a good defender and then I've gotten lazy off the ball and you make a stupid play and you look like you can't guard anybody.