Quotes about Responsibility

If you have excellent people, then you have to give them the power.

To own up to one's lack of courage and shortcoming without excuses is courage.

People expect a lot for me now, and I will achieve that.

I can't do anything about what other people expect me to do.

The worst kind of businesses are ones where there are no expectations set out for employees.

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner.

You're not a leader if you haven't been elected.

Freedom is a school of responsibility for human beings.

As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.

I used to get really ticked about preachers who talked too much about grace, because they tempted me to not be disciplined. I figured what people needed was a kick in the butt, and if I failed at godliness it was because those around me weren't trying hard enough.

The trouble with deep belief is that it costs something And there is something inside me, some selfish beast of a subtle thing that doesn't like the truth at all because it carries responsibility, and if I actually believe these things I have to do something about them. It is so, so cumbersome to believe anything. And it isn't cool.