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Quotes about Responsibility

Well, I say that the most important job you can possibly have is raising a child, and it needs to be treated that way. You have to show them, rather than just talk to them.
— Ben Carson
It's tempting, when confronted by political malfeasance, to become so absorbed with its symptom that we give too little attention to treating its cause.
— Marianne Williamson
Self-control is one mark of a mature person; it applies to control of language, physical treatment of others, and the appetites of the body.
— Joseph Wirthlin
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.
— Jennifer Lopez
On Christmas morning, before we could open our Christmas presents, we would go to this stranger's home and bring them presents. I remember helping clean the house up and putting up a tree. My father believed that you have a responsibility to look after everyone else.
— George Clooney
If God is just, I tremble for my country.
— Thomas Jefferson
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
— Bernice King
In the priesthood we share the sacred duty to labor for the souls of men. We must do more than learn that this is our duty. It must go down into our hearts so deeply that neither the many demands on our efforts in the bloom of life nor the trials that come with age can turn us from that purpose.
— Henry B. Eyring
Discipline says, 'I need to.' Duty says, 'I ought to.' Devotion says, 'I want to.'
— Adrian Rogers
Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought
— Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.
— Pope John Paul II