Quotes about Responsibility

That's true, you don't want to let anybody down and here are millions of people who've been waiting for their favorite characters to be brought to life and you don't want to disappoint.

Health is so necessary to all the duties, as well as pleasures of life, that the crime of squandering it is equal to the folly.

The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.

What one great idea resonates deeper in the soul than any other...that we are free to choose. Next to life itself, the power to choose is your greatest gift.

If there is a God, you owe him far more than a morally decent life.

To achieve major success in life - to achieve those things that are most important to you - you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

A good deal of frustration and unhappiness could be avoided if people would just do what they know they should do.

If he wants more, he must be of more service to those from whom he receives his return.

Consolidating power and merely delegating responsibilities are sufficient ways to maintain a single community, but they are terrible ways to exponentially reproduce Christian community. Movements occur only when the disempowered are given the freedom and responsibility to lead, along with the accountability to make it happen.

If Southern Baptist churches sent just 1 percent of their members to reach the nations and peoples of the world, instead of five thousand there would be 160,000 missionaries (according to our reported membership of sixteen million in 2009). The support should not be a problem—not financially, logistically, or in human resources. Could not 99 percent of the church adequately support the 1 percent sent to the nations to fulfill the mission of God?