Quotes about Responsibility

Too many men want the freedoms, rewards, and privileges of manhood but only the responsibilities of boyhood. They want intimacy with their wives without loving them as God instructed. They want to be respected by their kids without investing time and discipline in them. They want a higher status at work without raising their own level of honor and integrity.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.

We are free to choose our actions, . . . but we are not free to choose the consequences of these actions.

Happiness, like unhappiness, is a proactive choice.

One mentor I had taught me that people do what you inspect, not necessarily what you expect. In other words, if nobody is watching, there will be some slack off.

It's going to take all of us rolling up our sleeves to make America the America that it must become.

I've slept with a couple of people and made some poor choices and put things in jeopardy with... what I was happy with, and that's my own fault. I've got no one else to blame about that stuff.

Sloth is the failure to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done - like the kamikaze pilot who flew seventeen missions.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Life though a short, is a working day. Activity may lead to evil; but inactivity cannot be led to good.