Quotes About Responsibility

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

A child should always say what's trueAnd speak when he is spoken to,And behave mannerly at table;At least as far as he is able.

In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Who asks for me, the Shelley of my age,must lay his heart out for my bed and board.

As he puts it, "Waitresses and card dealers are paid minimum wage in anticipation of their income being supplemented by tips, so if one doesn't tip them, one is, in effect, robbing them of their livelihood. Public officials, on the other hand, are expected to live within their salaries, so any effort on their part to obtain additional earnings for the simple performance of their duties is extortion at its worst and should be a jailable offense!

Your admission to Complainers that you are at fault is not only likely to be taken as a sign of submission, but, more importantly, you are just confirming their belief that the power to solve the problems that they are pointing out is, in truth, yours. You validate for them the fact that indeed it's all your fault and they are blameless.

He scolds the whole staff when one person is late for a meeting

I suppose the stern and the cruel ones rule the world. If so, I shall be content to try to live each day within the limits of my conscience and let great plaudits go to those who are willing to pay the price for it.

believed it was better to assume the burden of leadership than to drift along in the shadows.

Of all the charges which have been leveled against me," he is quoted as saying in the Nuremberg Interviews, "the so-called looting of art treasures by me has caused me the most anguish.

As he later explained to Monuments Man Bernie Taper over drinks in a Berlin apartment, 'There's one good things about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.

I have always that there ought to be some kind of mandatory national service, not necessarily in the military but to show everybody that freedom isn't free, that everybody has an obligation to the nation as a community.

Be very careful what you recommend to the president because he will do what you say.

I remember sitting at the witness table listening to this litany of woe and thinking, What the hell am I doing here? I have walked right into the middle of a category-five shitstorm.

The creator is both detached and committed, free and yet ensnared, concerned but not too much so. If motivation is too strong the person is blinded if the objective situation is too tightly structured, the person sees none of its alternative possibilities.

Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.

Am I going to die?" "No trainee of mine has ever died." "How many have you had?" "You're the first." It

Princeton in the nation's service

Were I in philosophic agreement with Mr. Chambers, I would say that his review is the proof of his doctrine that men are born with Original Sin and are inherently corrupt. But I am not in agreement with Mr. Chambers. He cannot blame Adam or God for that review. It is his responsibility.

True patriotism is not worship of our nation but rather, in the light of our worship of the God of justice, to conform our nation's ways of justice.

To retreat behind the notion that the audience simply wants to dump its troubles at the door and escape reality is a cowardly abandonment of the artist's responsibility. Story isn't a flight from reality but a vehicle that carries us on our search for reality, our best effort to make sense out of the anarchy of existence.