Quotes about Responsibility

You think me the child of my circumstances: I make my circumstance.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

A materialist would argue that I'm a product of my circumstances. But I make my own circumstances. If I make a change in my dominant thoughts or motives, a change in my situation and surroundings will soon follow. Through my actions, I attract people and situations to match my mentality. As I am, so I act; and as I act, so I attract.

In a virtuous community, men of sense and of principle will always be placed at the head of affairs. In a declining state of public morals, men will be so blinded to their true interests as to put the incapable and unworthy at the helm. It is therefore vain to complain of the follies or crimes of a government. We must lay our hands on our own hearts and say 'Here is the sin that makes the public sin'.

Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong.

Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

We call it the moral sentiment. As we are, so we do; and as we do, so it is done to us; we are the builders of our fortunes.

What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

An obedient man is free when in prison," Quan said. "A disobedient man is imprisoned when free.