Quotes about Responsibility
There are two paths people can take. They can either play now and pay later, or pay now and play later. Regardless of the choice, one thing is certain. Life will demand a payment.
— John Maxwell
Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A friend of mine characterizes leaders simply like this: Leaders don't inflict pain. They bear pain.
— Max De Pree
You not only have a right to be an individual. You have a responsibility.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
— Barack Obama
The dead should not rule the living.
— Thomas Jefferson
To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation.
— Paulo Coelho
Not in the flight of ideas, but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of the living.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The existence of the moral sense is a signal that there is an ought, something other than, and transcendent over, what is. We will look again at this signal when we examine how.
— James Sire
As priests, we represent our nations, our neighborhoods, our families and our friends before the throne of Almighty God.
— James Goll
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
— Jane Goodall