Quotes About Responsibility

Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our back.

Drive thy business or it will drive thee." – Benjamin Franklin

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child" (Lear, 4.279–80).

When you let the wolves guard the hen house, there's bound to be a few chicken dinners.

Every degree of power involves a corresponding degree of freedo from good and evil.

All things flow from the spirit, Master Anderson. Governments are made up of their people. So long as they are men and women of character, the nation stands.

file. "James Miller. We'll need to determine if he is corrupt, or merely the unwitting tool of others.

In his hand, Marc still had the Glock semi-automatic. Both of them knew what should happen next. The right choice, the expedient choice, was to put a bullet in this man's head and keep running. Marc kept running

Successful program management is about choosing a right pathway and owning the advantages and disadvantages of the chosen path, because in the real world the optimal or perfect path doesn't exist.

Doubtless priest as well as Levite salved his conscience with ample excuse for his inhumane conduct; he may have been in a hurry, or was fearful, perhaps, that the robbers would return and make him also a victim of their outrage. Excuses are easy to find; they spring up as readily and plentifully as weeds by the wayside. When the Samaritan came along and saw the wretched state of the wounded man, he had no excuse for he wanted none. - ch. 26 of Jesus the Christ

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

Selfish children are just doing what they were taught!

Will you tell us why John the Baptist went forth crying in the wilderness?" Hely writhed. "Because Jesus made him do it." "Not quite!" said Mr. Dial, rubbing his hands.

throw up his hands and say, 'Who, me? I had nothing to do with it.'

It's a terrible thing, what we did," said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it.

Booze made people sloppy and unfocused:

By declaring complete responsibility for being in your cocoon, and total responsibility for leaving. We become trapped when we avoid taking responsibility for the conditions in our lives. We're trapped further by blaming others for lack of fulfillment, success, and happiness.

It is not until one visits old, oppressed, suffering Europe, that he can appreciate his own government, he observed, that he realizes the fearful responsibility of the American people to the nations of the whole earth, to carry successfully through the experiment... That men are capable of self-government.

became postmaster general, and Edwin M. Stanton, Lincoln's "Mars," eventually became secretary

Lincoln understood that the greatest challenge for a leader in a democratic society is to educate public opinion.

I hope to stand firm enough not to go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

it was not only the executive's right but his responsibility "to do whatever the needs of the people demand, unless the Constitution or the laws explicitly forbid him to do it.

Johnson insisted, "I don't want this symposium to come here and spend two days talking about what we have done, the progress has been much too small. We haven't done nearly enough. I'm kind of ashamed of myself that I had six years and couldn't do more than I did.

If "defeat is an orphan," the old saying goes, "victory has a thousand fathers