Responsibility Quotes

"To be a mother of a son is one of the most important things you can do to change the world. Raise them to respect women, raise them to stand up for others, raise them to be kind."

- Shannon L. Alder

"I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it’s good to make thoughtful, good choices."

- Karen Salmansohn

"As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son’s future are counting on me."

- Letty Cottin Pogrebin

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."

- Desmond Tutu

"Every time you post something online, you have a choice. You can either make it something that adds to the happiness levels in the world—or you can make it something that takes away. I tried to add something by starting Girl Online. And for a while, it really seemed to be working. So, next time you go to post a comment or an update or share a link, ask yourself: is this going to add to the happiness in the world? And if the answer is no, then please delete. There is enough sadness in the world already. You don’t need to add to it."

- Zoe Sugg

"We all have a responsibility to create a just society."

- Bryan Stevenson

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment, and it is time that we all took a stand against this."

- Katherine Jenkins

"You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it."

- Randi Weingarten

"Children should be able to live a life free from bullying and harassment and it is time that we all took a stand against this."

- Katherine Jenkins

"I think the sooner that all of us in society stop accepting any type of bullying or harassment from other people - in spite of people's social standing or net worth or whatever it is - the sooner it will stop."

- Jason Priestley

"We need to allow children to try and fail. And when they do make the stupid, shortsighted decisions that come from inexperience, we need to let them suffer the results. At the same time we also need to provide balance by not setting policies that will magnify one mistake, like drug use or fighting, into a life-derailing catastrophe. Unfortunately, this is exactly what our current "zero tolerance" policies- —that expel children from school for just one rule violation—do."

- Bruce D. Perry

"My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons, not your business."

- Wiz Khalifa

"If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive."

- Abraham Lincoln

"That which is not good for the bee-hive, cannot be good for the bees."

- Marcus Aurelius

"Failing to plan is planning to fail."

- Alan Lakein

"Journaling […] can be the go-to way you use your mind, maintain daily awareness, and take responsibility for your life."

- Eric Maisel

"Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it"

- Lou Holtz

"Life is the sum of all your choices"

- Albert Camus

"“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.”"

- Chief Justice John Marshall

"“The law must have the last word.”"

- Jacques Chirac

"“As citizens of this democracy, you are the rulers and the ruled, the law-givers and the law-abiding, the beginning and the end.”"

- Adlai Ewing Stevenson

"Anyone who believes a better day dawns when lawyers are eliminated bears the burden of explaining who will take their place. Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial violence?"

- John J. Curtin, Jr.

"In the United States, every one is personally interested in enforcing the obedience of the whole community to the law; for as the minority may shortly rally the majority to its principles, it is interested in professing that respect for the decrees of the legislator which it may soon have occasion to claim for its own. However irksome an enactment may be, the citizen of the United States complies with it, not only because it is the work of the majority, but because it is his own, and he regards it as a contract to which he is himself a party."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"As [a citizen] is a “law-maker,” he should not be a “law-breaker,” for he ought to be conscious that every departure from the established ordinances of society is an infraction of his rights. His power can only be maintained by the supremacy of the laws, as in monarchies, the authority of the king is asserted by obedience to his orders. The citizen in lending a cheerful assistance to the ministers of the law, on all occasions, is merely helping to maintain his own power. This feature in particular, distinguishes the citizen from the subject."

- James Fenimore Cooper

"The primary duty of a lawyer engaged in public prosecution is not to convict, but to see that justice is done."

- Canons of Professional Ethics Canon 5

"Of course, I believe that every child has a right to decent education and shelter, food and medical care; of course, I believe that refugees from political oppression have a right to a haven in a free land; of course I believe that every person has a right to work in dignity and for a decent wage. I do believe and affirm the social contract that grounds these rights. But more to the point I also believe that I am commanded-that we are obligated-to realize those rights."

- Robert M. Cover

"We cannot not be here. People look to us."

- Mari Wright

"Science can flourish only in an atmosphere of free speech."

- Albert Einstein

"We all have a role to play in preventing suicide. Take action and get involved at https://afsp.org."