Quotes about Responsibility

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered…

Every decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge of the universe.

decision you make in life has benefits and consequences. Sometimes you just have to go on faith, and even that comes at a price. It means you have to give up the idea that you're the one in charge of the universe.

Do we carry the guilt from the sins of past generations? If so, can we bear the weight of that burden?

We do not choose the vessel we're given, Iola Anne, but we choose what we pour out and what we keep inside," she say.

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much.

Parenthood is the only career in which the better you do your job, the sooner you're fired.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to

It occurred to me that I should do more for other people. I never once considered that there were people just down the road who cannot afford proper clothing, or care for their children.