Quotes about Responsibility
How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Everything starts with one person... I don't care if you're 5 or 105, God from all eternity chose you to be where you are, at this time in history, to change the world.
— Mother Angelica
I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time.
— George W. Bush
If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
— Oprah Winfrey
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
— St. Augustine
This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.
— AW Tozer
Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!
— CT Studd
Procrastination is the thief of time, collar him.
— Charles Dickens
Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle.
— Rose Kennedy
Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
— Barbara Brown Taylor