Quotes about Responsibility

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

For every promise, there is price to pay.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

A simple and a proper function of government is just to make it easy for us to do good and difficult for us to do wrong.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

You and I have not been commanded to be successful as we tell others about Jesus. We have not been commanded to lead others to place their faith in Him. We are commanded simply to be faithful in declaring the truth. Praise God! The burden of responsibility belongs to the Holy Spirit when it comes to convincing others of the truth of their own sin and need for a Savior.

Sometimes doing the right thing wounds others — and also wounds the wounder.

So many wounds are inflicted almost without thinking, aren't they? We never sin unto ourselves. Sin invariably involves others, usually affecting those who are closest to us.

Sarah blamed her husband for a situation she herself had arranged! It might seem ludicrous if it wasn't so much like what all of us do when we allow our wounds to blind us. That's the most striking characteristic of a blind spot — it can be easily seen by everyone … except ourselves.

Let go of the overwhelming desire to justify what you did and explain what they did.