Quotes about Responsibility
Voting isn't the most we can do, but it's the least.
— Gloria Steinem
Exodus 21:22—23, a passage that says a man who causes a pregnant woman to miscarry must pay a fine but is not charged with murder, not unless the woman herself dies. Thus the Bible is making clear that a dependent life is not the same as an independent life.
— Gloria Steinem
The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; A movement is only people moving.
— Gloria Steinem
A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.
— Golda Meir
If we are worried about the future, then we must look today at the upbringing of children.
— Gordon Hinckley
Work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it.
— Gordon Hinckley
Marriage in its truest sense, is a partnership of equals, with neither exercising dominion over the other, but, rather, with each encouraging and assisting the other in whatever responsibilities and aspirations he or she might have.
— Gordon Hinckley
Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.
— Gordon Hinckley
You are people with a present and with a future. Don't muff the ball. Be excellent.
— Gordon Hinckley
work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.
— Gordon Hinckley
This church does not belong to its President. Its head is the Lord Jesus Christ, whose name each of us has taken upon ourselves. We are all in this great endeavor together. We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory. . . . Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere. No calling in this church is small or of little consequence.
— Gordon Hinckley
There is no greater blessing that you can have than to stand as a proxy in a great service to those who have gone beyond. And it will be your privilege and your opportunity and your responsibility to live worthy to go to the temple of the Lord and be baptized in behalf of someone else.
— Gordon Hinckley