Quotes about Responsibility

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

A wedding is an event. Marriage is a life time. Invest more in your marriage than your wedding and success is inevitable.

If he could have reached it, he'd have kicked his own backside.

All play and no work make Jack a poor boy.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

We rescue people from their responsibilities. We take care of people's responsibilities for them. Later we get mad at them for what we've done. Then we feel used and sorry for ourselves. That is the pattern, the triangle.

We don't have to take other people's behaviors as reflections of our self-worth. We don't have to be embarrassed if someone we love chooses to behave inappropriately. It's normal to react that way, but we don't have to continue to feel embarrassed and less than if someone else continues to behave inappropriately. Each person is responsible for his or her behavior.