Quotes about Responsibility

It made my heart ache to think of this miserable trifling, in the streets of a city where every stone seemed to call to me, as I walked along, 'Turn this way, man, and see what waits to be done!' So I decoyed myself into another train of thought to ease my heart.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

The gospel is only Good News if it gets there in time.

Statistics indicate that 95 percent of all Christians have never led another person to Christ.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.