Quotes About Responsibility

Well, naturally, it is not a bad thing to love peace," Ernan countered. "But there comes a time when people can't bear the burdens placed on them. Master Hus is helping people see those burdens, things they've never seen before. And if it isn't right, it won't be borne. Haven't I said so before?" Anika

He allows men to make choices. Just as He allows nations to rise and fall according to their actions.

But you are mine no longer. You are a man, with a man's concerns, and

prophet in Shiloh." The reminder that other men also shared the burden of leadership alleviated some of my distress. For years I had imagined myself alone in my task, but if Adonai was also using another man with long plaited hair, maybe the responsibility wasn't as heavy as I feared.

Obedience without choice is servitude. Love without choice is not love.

I might have been content to remain in Delilah's house forever, hiding from the Philistines and from my responsibility. I had been distracted from my task, and for that sin I begged forgiveness from Adonai. I had let a woman interfere with my sacred covenant with Adonai.

I got the wake-up call that no one is policing our oceans. I wondered, how can I do anything? What really can I do to make things better? There are some perks to being a celebrity. My job is to be funny once in a while, but it's my responsibility to make good use of it.

Being a parent is amazing.

I think it's a tough road if you're a stay-at-home mom, a working mom, if you have a partner, if you don't. It's the best job in the world, and the toughest job in the world all at the same time.

Blaming yourself gives you the comfortable illusion of being in control.

And mind you," said Dr. Ford, "I'm only doing this to please your mother and Lord Stoke. If you were my child I'd let you fester and gangrene, and serve you right. Did I or did I not tell you not to go near Stokey Hole?

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Go to work and mess up a big project. Nothing big enough to get fired, of course. While your supervisor is lecturing you about responsibility, watch the clock and calculate how much she is paying you to listen to her.

Miss. Wells said she would have to replace him in the play, Toby said he would visit

Francis, who was very well off, who found the comfort of his mother's house more attractive than a house of his own, who could use his mother's car but did not think of her need of it, who enjoyed gallivanting about the country and doing theatricals with Lady Cora (for so he put it not very kindly to himself) and at the same time demanded his wife's presence, who was not taking part, though a few years earlier it was she who was the theatrical star.

He had been so well brought up, first by an autocratic mother and then by an autocratic wife, not to speak of a black period during which he had been brought up by both ladies, who sometimes used him as a pawn against each other and at other times joined forces to crush him, that he had a feeling of guilt on those very rare occasions when he set out to enjoy himself in his own way.

What does Mrs Preston want to go abroad for?' asked Mr Leslie. 'I think her doctor wanted her to, Father,' said Agnes. 'Doctors!' said Mr Leslie, wiping the whole of the Royal College of Physicians off the face of the world with this withering remark.

Four Rules For Life: Show up. Pay attention. Tell the truth. Don't be attached to the results.

La vida era así, una interminable cadena de favores mutuos, y desentenderse de la familia y de los seres cercanos cuando la necesitaban le hubiera parecido una traición imperdonable.

Has de dejar de quejarte y de echarte la culpa a ti, al destino y a terceros. Has de tomar de una vez los hechos como tales y no como cambios infinitamente lamentables. Porque tan lamentables no son.

Tens una por terrible, i ho entenc, però hauries d'evitar justificar-te sempre darrere d'aquesta por.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.' I think people that do horrible things should be held accountable.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It's the most wonderful thing.