Quotes About Responsibility

Playboy: Do you ever wonder how you have survived this long? Thompson: Yes. Nobody expected me to get much past 20. Least of all me. I just assume, "Well, I got through today, but tomorrow might be different." This is a very weird and twisted world; you can't afford to get careless; don't fuck around. You want to keep your affairs in order at all times.

What the world needs now is a conscience.

It is our mission to forestall our duties

when the man would be responsible for everything he speaks in vain. -He's responsible when that, which he speaks in vain, causes a misfortune.

Em geral, as pessoas só pedem conselhos - dizia - para não segui-los, ou, quando os seguem, só para ter alguém a quem recriminar por havê-los dado.

There are good trading systems out there, but they have to be monitored and adjusted using individual judgment. You have to stay on the ball—you cannot abdicate responsibility for your success to a mechanical system.

la mayoría de personas disfrutaba de seguir al líder. Les liberaba de la obligación de pensar por sí mismos.

A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.

I have thought it my duty to exhibit things as they are, not as they ought to be.

If we must have an enemy at the head of government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible.

Everybody expected everything for nothing not realising that he had bills to pay.

She had not come to the shopping centre to buy shoes; she had come to buy food, and there was a big difference between shopping for food and shopping for shoes, and that difference concentrated on one word: guilt.

We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them.

There was so much suffering in Africa that it was tempting just to shrug your shoulders and walk away. But you can't do that, she thought. You just can't.

Isabel had firm views on moral proximity and the obligations it created. WE cannot choose the situations in which we become involved in this life; we are caught up in them whether we like it or not. If one encounters the need for another, because of who one happens to be, or where one happens to find oneself, and one is in a position to help, then one should do so. It was as simple as that.

It was curious how some people had a highly developed sense of guilt, she thought, while others had none. Some people would agonise over minor slips or mistakes on their part, while others would feel quite unmoved by their own gross acts of betrayal or dishonesty.

Mma Ramotswe reflected on how easy it was to find oneself committed to a course of action simply because one lacked the courage to say no.

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni was not a lazy man, but it was remarkable to reflect how most men imagined that things like tea and food would simply appear if they waited long enough. There would always be a woman in the background--a mother, a girlfriend, a wife--who would ensure that those needs would be met.

Men can be teenagers until well into their twenties. That is well known

Women, as usual, were expected to behave better than men, and inevitably attracted criticism for doing things that men were licensed to do with impunity.

There is a difference between a challenge and a burden. One is something you can carry on your shoulders easily enough—the other is something, a big sack, that bends you double.

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. They looked away

We need a person whom we can make our little god on this earth, as the old Kgatla saying had it. Whether it was a spouse, or a child, or a parent, or anybody else for that matter, there must be somebody who gives our lives purpose.

There were two classes of persons upon whom a duty of virtually absolute confidentiality rested: doctors and lovers.