#responsibility

Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. ↗

— Boyd K. Packer

#freedom

Chances are if you find yourself caught up in a political foofaraw at work, or in some family squabble at home, it's because someone else is succeeding in convincing you that his problem is your problem. The non-self-destructor recognizes this and as soon as possible, gives the sleepless night back to the person to whom it belongs. ↗

— Jason Seiden

#hyperviligance #letting-go #responsibility #someone-else-s-problem #family

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation ↗

— Dan Millman

#living #responsibility #inspirational

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with. ↗

— Rob Liano

#inspiration #maturity #responsibility #wedding-vows #inspirational

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. ↗

— Colin Powell

#responsibility #leadership

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#destruction #leadership #responsibility #leadership

We owe our children – the most vulnerable citizens in any society – a life free from violence and fear. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#fear #responsibility #violence #vulnerability #life

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground. ↗

— Erica Bauermeister

#gulliver #responsibility #life

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#reason #responsibility #men

Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#men