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Quotes about Responsibility

So I know, with a sense of responsibility that hits me with a cold fist in the pit of my stomach, that what I am is going to make more difference to my own children and those I talk to and teach than anything I tell them.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I suppose that depends on how you look at it," Meg said. "Usually no matter what happens people think it's my fault, even if I have nothing to do with it at all. But I'm sorry I tried to fight him. It's just been an awful week. And I'm full of bad feeling.
— Madeleine L'Engle
All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men remain silent and do nothing.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Everything that we do either draws the Kingdom of love closer, or pushes it further off.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You must not refuse to do this, or you, too, will be accused. In the town they have convicted entire families." Richard said, "There was another carpenter, once, and he would have refused to do this thing. Him I will follow.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Theron thought he could solve problems by brushing them aside as though they didn't exist. But they do exist, they still exist, and unless responsible people do something about them, our land is in for fresh disaster, brother against brother, black against white.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You're not responsible for how you feel. You're responsible for what you do
— Madeleine L'Engle
There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones
— Madeleine L'Engle
Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.
— Madeleine L'Engle
You're going to have to do something about yourself. Nobody can do it tor you.
— Madeleine L'Engle
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
— Og Mandino
The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves.
— Brian Tracy