Quotes About Responsibility

And Everything Matters The tasks that have been entrusted to us are often difficult. Almost everything that matters is difficult, and everything matters. Worpswede, July 16, 1903 Letters to a Young Poet

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.

Love imposes obligations and these are constant. An intermittent lover is no use to a person of dignity and courage.

Parents are only good as parents at a certain stage of their children's lives, she reflected.

It no longer seemed to me important that I had been duped. I was so tired of not apportioning blame that I could no longer see where it was due.

but you've been a fool. Some women take advantage. Once they're married, and they've got a good husband, they think they can do what they like. And if they take him for granted-" she paused significantly- "they just don't bother anymore.

I have no lovers, if that is what you mean. I had them once, but that was when I was free.' 'One is never free. One has only the illusion of freedom. One is never free of obligations, whether explicit or implicit. The latter are the worst.

Now I understand why you do not wish to marry. You have dedicated your life to others -- to your sick brother and your aged aunt and your little brother who will be dependent on you all his life. You have sacrificed your own life for them.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

The business of business should not just be about money, it should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed.

Don't count on God to make things happen, what if the God itself is counting on you.

treatment of the Jews was wrong

Just because someone grows up shouldn't mean that the people who helped him get that way no longer counted.

The real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.

She'd looked after Hector in his last months out of a sense of duty. Because she was all he had.

obligation to their parents. She said they don't ask to be born. The obligation all goes one way. I didn't see it then but now I think she

This is urgent. Please make sure Miss Willmore gets it immediately, wherever she is.' She looked at her watch, then she made one more call and drove north.

His family longed for him to be home though they would never say so. It was his choice, they said. He should do whatever made him happy. They were proud of the work he did. But the pressure was there, subtle and unspoken.

She'd once read out a comment she'd been given at her appraisal: You shouldn't believe that you're indispensable. Your role is to pass on your skills to others. 'Well

Recovery isn't just about stopping drinking or giving up drugs; it's about taking responsibility. Not easy, if you've been running away from it all your life.

We batter this planet as if we had someplace else to go.

What good is it to know of a danger if you don't do anything about it? Maybe it's better not to know. Knowing can be a curse.

Now is the time for the U.S. and the nations of Western Europe who engaged in the slave trade throughout this hemisphere to come forward in a positive way to assist in undoing the harm that was caused by their past colonial policies in the hemisphere.