Responsibility Quotes

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.

Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

You create a good future by creating a good present. How do you do that? By recognizing the goodness that is already inherent in the present moment, even in the midst of challenges. Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Someone will always be looking at you as an example of how to behave. Don't let him down.

When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man.

This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity.

Motherhood isn't just a series of contractions; it's a state of mind. From the moment we know life is inside us, we feel a responsibility to protect and defend that human being.

Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.

The wealth that cannot be administered is a burden.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?

To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.

He that takes a wife, takes care

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

There is no growth except in the fulfillment of obligations.

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Please, put aside all excuses and ask yourself, "What should I be doing?" Yes, you alone can make a difference. The question is, will you?

I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully.

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

If [Sean] doesn't see me a few days or if I'm really, really busy, and I just sort of get a glimpse of him, or if I'm feeling depressed without him even seeing me, he sort of picks up on it. And he starts getting that way. So I can no longer afford to have artistic depressions. If I start wallowing in a depression, he'll start coming down with stuff, so I'm sort of obligated to keep up. And sometimes I can't, because something will make me depressed and sure as hell he'll get a cold or trap his finger in a door or something, and so now I have sort of more reason to stay healthy or bright.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.

Know that a word suddenly shot from the tongue is like an arrow shot from the bow. Son, that arrow won't turn back on its way; you must damn the torrent at its source.

It's in your hands to make the world a better place.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Instead of always asking yourself why so-and-so acts this or that way, learn to ask: "What's inside of me that wants to hurt itself over how anyone else acts?"

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Life is the result of all your choices.

A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally responsible for his society.

Leadership, like responsibility, is a voluntary act.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

One reason--perhaps the chief--of the virility of the Roosevelts is [their] very democratic spirit. They have never felt that because they were born in a good position they could put their hands in their pockets and succeed. They have felt, rather, that being born in a good position, there is no excuse for them if they did not do their duty by the community.

I'm just a guy that is basically depending on my responsibility skills. I'm really responsible with my children and my wife and my family life. Things have changed with me. I'm not a night person anymore. I've got too many responsibilities to play.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them.

With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you.