Quotes about Responsibility

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall?

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

Man cannot choose his duties.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

You can't just check out and think it will all be over. It won't be over for anyone who loves you. You'll only leave them to run after the pieces that scatter in the angry wind. You'll leave them desperately trying to solve the problems you wouldn't . . . all while plugging their own wounds. Even if you're like me, single without children, you could impact generations.

Everything rises and falls on leadership. —John Maxwell

If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. Admiral Bill McRaven (Navy SEAL)

Taking responsibility for where you are in life at this moment is your foundation for success. It means you accept responsibility for the things you do and the things you fail to do. Living an excuse-free life starts you on the pathway to success.

If a man supervises but fails to nurture, it's possible that he's either a tyrant or an absentee landlord. Neither is fitting for a father, much less an elder.

To waste and destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them.