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Quotes about Responsibility

Our memories are our own, and we cannot blame anything or anyone in the past for any pain dwelling there. If we open the door to them or keep hashing over past incidents in our minds, we have only ourselves to blame.
— Mother Angelica
This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.
— Ben Carson
At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.
— Pope Benedict XVI
By taking the lives of our young, and wounding the wombs and lives of their mothers, we are flying in the face of God. We cannot play God. If we continue down this path of destruction, we will be met at the gates by our own doom.
— Alveda King
All my friends were in college when I was making 'Superbad.' We were drinking beer and watching movies and eating pizza. It wasn't like I was going to nice restaurants or anything like that, and I lived like a frat guy. Eventually it was time to grow up, be healthy and be responsible. You can't live like a kid forever, you know?
— Jonah Hill
A lot of people think that they are leaders just because they have been placed in charge of something - and you're not.
— Shonda Rhimes
I don't think the world will destroy itself in a nuclear cataclysm. On the contrary, we have the capacity to save ourselves and save the planet, and we will use it.
— Isabel Allende
I've heard it said that the most dangerous animal on the planet is the adolescent male.
— Jacqueline Novogratz
I'm employee No. 3,467. I'm not a Jon Jones, I'm not a Conor McGregor. Guys like us, we've just got to step up to the plate when they call us and do what they ask and get it done.
— Corey Anderson
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
— Edmund Burke
Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
— Maria Edgeworth
I think I'd be a better president because I was in combat.
— George H. W. Bush