Responsibility Quotes

"If you’re not staying on top of your money, you’re putting your financial well-being at risk."

- Suze Orman

"A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page. It is an embodiment of our values."

- Barack Obama

"Never spend your money before you have earned it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value."

- Joe Biden

"Money does not dictate your lifestyle, It’s what you do to get it and how you manage your finances that determines your lifestyle."

- Wayne Chirisa

"Manage your spending by creating and sticking to a budget."

- Alexa von Tobel

"The only time to buy something is when you can afford it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Budgeting is telling your money where to go, instead of wondering where it went."

- John Barnes

"Don’t tell me what your priorities are. Show me where you spend your money, and I’ll tell you what they are."

- James W. Frick

"The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?"

- John F. Kennedy

"At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

- Abraham Lincoln

"In my home state of Delaware, we've done our homework and worked hard and, as a result, we've made great strides in cleaning up our own air pollution. Unfortunately, a number of the upwind states to the west of us have not made the same commitment to reducing harmful pollution by investing in cleaner air."

- Tom Carper

"The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world."

- Jules Shear

"The people will save their government, if the government itself will do its part only indifferently well."

- Abraham Lincoln

"It is as much the duty of government to render prompt justice against itself, in favor of citizens, as it is to administer the same between private individuals."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards – the things we live by and teach our children – are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings."

- Walt Disney

"We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork."

- Milton Friedman

"A good job is more than just a paycheck. A good job fosters independence and discipline, and contributes to the health of the community. A good job is a means to provide for the health and welfare of your family, to own a home, and save for retirement."

- James H. Douglas, Jr.

"Let's be clear about this, and let's be clear: we should not be creating incentives to house people in prison. We should be creating incentives instead to shut the revolving door into prison."

- Kamala Harris

"Prisons are out of public sight, and most often out of mind. But the vast majority of prisoners will at some point leave jail and rejoin our communities, which is why what happens inside matters to us all."

- David Lidington

"It's simple: put the money into schools and not prisons."

- Ty Dolla Sign

"Probation is a less-well-known branch of our justice system, compared with, say, police and prisons, but that doesn't make it any less important. Hundreds of thousands of offenders each year are rehabilitated back into society by probation, which is crucial for the public's safety."

- Sadiq Khan

"We need to work together to embrace and repair our land, repair our power systems, and repair ourselves. It's time to stop building the shopping malls, the prisons, the stadiums, and other tributes to all of our collective failures."

- Majora Carter

"Do not let a leader lead you on a bad path."

- Confucius

"To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away."

- Confucius

"When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy."

- Dalai Lama

"The power of flight is one of the greatest gifts we possess, and it’s up to us to use it wisely and responsibly."

- Unknown

"A los Tontos No les Dura el Dinero – A Fool and his Money Are Soon Parted"