Quotes about Responsibility
Vices are their own punishment.
— Aesop
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
— Aesop
The gods help them that help themselves.
— Aesop
As adults, we try to develop the character traits that would have rescued our parents.
— Alain de Botton
There is valour in being able to identify a forgiving, hopeful perspective on one's life, in knowing how to be a friend to oneself, because one has a responsibility to others to endure.
— Alain de Botton
I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
— Alan Hirsch
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
— Derek Prince
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
— Desmond Tutu
Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.
— DiAnn Mills
One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"If any want to become my followers," Jesus says. Following him is not something that is self-evident, even among the disciples. No one can be forced, no one can be expected to follow him. ... "If any want to follow me, they must deny themselves and take up their cross."
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer