Quotes About Responsibility

Also," droned Helen, "Dr. Clinton Clark, Chief of Gynecology called, not his secretary, the doctor himself. And he sounded very angry. He wants you to call. And Mr. Drake wants a call too." The printout

Kristin realized that trying to decide when it was "safe" was no longer a reasonable method of birth control.

Her conception of the role of the medical examiner was to speak for the dead to help the living.

It was infinitely easier to deal with the complications of intracellular life than the uncertainties of child rearing.

La honradez es un lujo de los ricos. El comerciante siempre trata de obtener el mejor precio por su mercadería, por sí mismo y por su familia. Los turistas que vienen aquí andan en busca de recuerdos. Si quieren comprar auténticas antigüedades, lo menos que pueden hacer es adquirir algún conocimiento sobre el tema. Es responsabilidad de ellos.

I'd never understand little kids. You ask them to clean up their toys, and it's like the end of the freaking world. You ask them to do a big kid chore that they won't be any good at, and it's like an early Christmas present.

You know what they say assuming does. It makes an ass out of you and me, but mostly just me.

She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.

My father... raised me to make up my own mind. The way he did this was by yielding to me when I asked, even when I was foolish. I lived through it; and I know my own mind; and he will do what I ask him.

Don't let the title mislead you, Arlbeth told her. The king is simply the visible one. I'm so visible, in fact, that most of the important work has to be done by other people. Nonsense, said Tor. Arlbeth chuckled. Your loyalty does you honor, but you're in the process of becoming too visible to be effective yourself, so what do you know about it?

But he hated to see his people people unhappy--because he was a good king, not because he was a nervous one--

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

Mr. Responsible Media was looking rebellious, but this was my country. I was the Cinnamon Roll Queen and most of those assembled were my devoted subjects.

she'd found she couldn't bring herself to kill any of her bees, which was the system all the northern demesnes used, and so had to get them through the winter somehow. She'd been cold that winter herself, after wrapping up her most exposed hives in all the blankets she had.

It wasn't the work of the Chalice she minded. It was the vast unfathomable burden of its responsibility. She still felt the Chalice was incomprehensibly beyond her—even wished that it were incomprehensibly beyond her, so she could give up.

I disliked promises on principle because my conscience made me keep them.

First rule: If your dog doesn't do what you want, it's your fault.

She had told the frog, Certainly, anything; and her father had brought her up to understand that she must always keep her word, the more so because as Princess there was no one who could force her to.

The fate of Sir John French, who had failed in the previous September at Loos - but had not lost anything like so many men in the process - cannot have passed unnoticed by General Haig in the autumn of 1916.

Physical bravery is essential in second lieutenants but dangerous in general officers. They should learn caution and judgement as they rise through the ranks; a general needs moral courage, not least the courage to make a hard decision and stick to it under pressure from his superiors and events.

La baza tuturor eforturilor noastre de a transforma pe cineva st? un motiv egoist, convingerea c? dac? el se schimb?, vom fi fericite. E foarte bine s?-Å£i doreÅŸti s? fii fericit, dar s? plasezi sursa acestei fericiri în afara sinelui t?u, în mâinile altcuiva, înseamn? s? eviÅ£i capacitatea ÅŸi responsabilitatea de a-Å£i schimba viaÅ£a în bine

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

Stop making excuses and just do it!

I've learned about leadership is that leaders are those individuals who do the things that failures aren't willing to do—even though they might not like doing them either. They have the discipline to do what they know to be important—and right—versus what's easy and fun.