Quotes about Responsibility
Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it.
— Albert Einstein
Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.
— Melody Beattie
The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.
— Shane Claiborne
Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
— Oprah Winfrey
Every member must work or quit. No honorary members.
— Charles Finney
Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We've got work to do.
— Barack Obama
The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm; his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command.
— JRR Tolkien
The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.
— Peter Drucker
A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
— Dag Hammarskjold
Up, then, with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away-- This is no time for thee to sleep-- Up, watch, and work, and pray!
— Horatius Bonar
While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.
— Rick Warren
A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.
— John Wesley