Quotes About Responsibility

In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility.

So much of life is out of our control. I've learned to focus on what I do have control over: myself.

I-don't-wants hold the key to your success," rich dad would say. Because I, too, do not want to fix toilets, I shop hard for a property manager who does fix toilets.

You'd best change your point of view. Stop blaming me and thinking I'm the problem. If you think I'm the problem, then you have to change me. If you realize that you're the problem, then you can change yourself, learn something, and grow wiser. Most people want everyone else in the world to change but themselves. Let me tell you, it's easier to change yourself than everyone else.

they often do not have the mental and emotional capacity to handle the sudden abundance of money, so the money overflows and runs away.

For example, one dad had a habit of saying, "I can't afford it." The other dad forbade those words to be used. He insisted I ask, "How can I afford it?" One is a statement, and the other is a question. One lets you off the hook, and the other forces you to think.

If you take on debt personally, make sure it's small. If you take on large debt, make sure someone else is paying for it.

Many of you were given two great gifts: your mind and your time. It is up to you to do what you please with both.

the subject of money is taught at home, not in school.

If we don't do likewise, we'll soon have a sclerotic society that takes care of its elders at the expense of its youth.

A promise made is a debt unpaid

He was one of those people who feel so compelled to fulfill duties that they go plunging into great collapsing edifices constructed entirely of disagreeable duties simply out of the fear that some secret, inconspicuous duty might somehow elude them.

Money rules the world, and doubtless also, here and there, the bit of love within it, and when love turns to hate, one remembers unpaid board.

The pull of an immoral world outside our homes is as strong as the force that sucks the soft, white stuff into the form. Neutrality on our part as parents will result in failure. Without our intentional effort to defy it, our kids will have no chance but to be thoroughly drawn into those things that we fear most.

father was ashamed of the baby and left him with his mother.

The last concept to be added to Bowen theory is that of societal regression. It notes that, periodically, as anxiety begins to run higher in society, regressed behavior can be noted on a massive scale. A hallmark of such an anxious period is the unwillingness of families or other institutions of society (such as the court system) to take responsibility when behavior breaks down.

To begin the work of changing a relationship of overfunctioning/ underfunctioning reciprocity, one must not ask, "How can I change this troublesome partner of mine?" Instead the question is, "What is my contribution to this relationship pattern?

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

My position was a common one; I wanted to do the right thing but could not help regretting the damnable expense.

The only people who make any sense in the world are those who know that whatever happens to them has its roots in what they are.

To marry was to take a hand in a dangerous game where the stakes are the highest - a fuller life or a life diminished and confined. It was a game for adult players.

I don't think Emily was quite up to the demands of being everything to Chips. Love lays heavy burdens on the loved one, sometimes

I think I'd rather get a job. Why? Why not? Jobs are for people who need them. You don't need one. You'd be taking it from somebody else who did.

Consider your duty done," said Mannerheim, looking back into his expanding incision. Philips