Quotes about Responsibility

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills…

Whoever degrades another degrades me, And whatever is done or said returns at last to me. Through me the afflatus surging and surging, through me the current and index. I speak the pass-word primeval, I give the sign of democracy, By God! I will accept nothing which all cannot have their counterpart of on the same terms.

In a few years all our restless and angry hearts will be quiet in death, but those who come after us will live in the world which our sins have blighted or which our love of right has redeemed.

Remember as you go about your day that you may be the only Jesus some of your friends, neighbors, and family will ever see.

Only those who are subject to authority can be authority.

How many of us dare not use our time or money or talents as we would, because we realise they are the Lord's, not ours?

Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.

God in heaven will only bind and loose what His children

to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required.

How many of us know that, because Christ is risen, we are therefore alive "unto God" and not unto ourselves? How many of us dare not use our time, or money, or talents as we would, because we realize they are the Lord's, not ours? How many of us have such a strong sense that we belong to Another that we dare not squander a shilling of our money, or an hour of our time, or any of our mental or physical powers?