Quotes about Responsibility
Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.
— Deborah Raney
But I contend that if we're providing total medical coverage for every man, woman, and child in Iraq, shouldn't we at least be doing the same thing for every man, woman, and child in the United States?
— Tony Campolo
I am the servant of all great individuals and, alas, of all failures, as well. Those who are great, I have made great. Those who are failures, I have made failures.
— Sean Covey
Proactive people make choices based on values. They think before they act. They recognize they cannot control everything that happens to them, but they can control what they do about it.
— Sean Covey
We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
— Sean Covey
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
— Sean Covey
He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.
— Seneca
He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.
— Seneca
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman
— Seneca
Live among men as if God beheld you speak to God as if men were listening.
— Seneca
If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.
— Shane Claiborne
When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.
— Shane Claiborne