Quotes about Responsibility
One must see it close up, the callousness with which otherwise kind people act in the capacity of the public because their participation or non-participation seems to them a trifle - a trifle that with the contributions of the many becomes the monster.
— Soren Kierkegaard
You can determine the kind of life you will have in your 30s and 40s by what you do in your teens.
— Gordon Hinckley
The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.
— Henry David Thoreau
I said "Somebody should do something about that." Then I realized I am somebody.
— Lily Tomlin
As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye.
— John Milton
Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.
— John Milton
We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.
— John Newton
Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.
— John Oliver
Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)
— John Piper
Go, send, or disobey.
— John Piper
A famous cigarette billboard pictures a curly-headed, bronze-faced, muscular macho with a cigarette hanging out the side of his mouth. The sign reads 'Where a man belongs.' That is a lie. Where a man belongs is at the bedside of his children, leading in devotion and prayer. Where a man belongs is leading his family to the house of God. Where a man belongs is up early and alone with God seeking vision and direction for the family.
— John Piper
No man," Wilberforce wrote, "has a right to be idle." "Where is it," he asked, "that in such a world as this, health, and leisure, and affluence may not find some ignorance to instruct, some wrong to redress, some want to supply, some misery to alleviate?
— John Piper