Quotes about Responsibility

Do the nieces come to see her? Oh, yes, now and then, out of a spirit of duty. But they dread these visits. They know they will have to sit and listen for hours to half-veiled reproaches. They will be treated to an endless litany of bitter complaints and self-pitying sighs. And when this woman can no longer bludgeon, browbeat, or bully her nieces into coming to see her, she has one of her "spells." She develops a heart attack.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

To say we must be more mindful of our words is an understatement.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

I can't imagine the pressure you must be under to have the weight of an entire country on your shoulders.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves? Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

We have all read the golden rule and the Sermon on the Mount. Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

To manipulate, drive or manage people is not the same thing as to lead them.

We have the ability and responsibility to keep God present in our minds, and those who do so will make steady progress toward him, for he will respond by making himself known to us.

The so-called "right to privacy" of which so much is made in contemporary life is in very large measure merely a way of avoiding scrutiny in our wrongdoing.

A. W. Tozer expressed his "feeling that a notable heresy has come into being throughout evangelical Christian circles—the widely accepted concept that we humans can choose to accept Christ only because we need him as Savior and that we have the right to postpone our obedience to him as Lord as long as we want to!