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Quotes About Responsibility

Wouldst thou shut up the avenues of ill, Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are always those who think they know what is your responsibility better than you do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The leader must be in charge of getting things done by running the three core processes—picking other leaders, setting the strategic direction, and conducting operations.
~ Ram Charan
In fact, to be successful as a first-time manager requires a major transition for which many people are not adequately prepared. Perhaps the most difficult aspect of this transition is that first-time managers are responsible for getting work done through others rather than on their own.
~ Ram Charan
Many business heads also feel that they're "going it alone"—they're receiving much less guidance from their boss than they did when they were functional managers.
~ Ram Charan
Over the years I've asked many of them what was the greatest mistake they ever made in the area of people. The most common answer? "Waiting too long" to remove a direct report who was not matched to the job.
~ Ram Charan
We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.
~ Ram Dass
In Gandhi's view of the world, 'generally, it is the father who should be the bread-winner', while 'family life is the first and greatest thing. Its sanctity must remain.
~ Ramachandra Guha
VIII A second dark spot, also growing darker, is the growing criminality of the political class. As
~ Ramachandra Guha
If he is a bastard, at least he is our bastard'
~ Ramachandra Guha
From his home in New Delhi, Atal Behari Vajpayee spoke by satellite to tribals in Kashipur, whose kinsmen had died after eating mango kernel because their crops had failed. 'It is extremely unfortunate that in today's world people die by eating poisonous material', said the head of a government that could speak to its citizens by videophone, yet not supply them with wholesome food.
~ Ramachandra Guha
Do what is right at a given moment and leave it behind
~ Ramana Maharshi
The Power that created you has created the world as well. If it can take care of you, it can similarily take care of the world also. If God has created the world, it is His business to look after it, not yours.
~ Ramana Maharshi
To perform one's duty is the greatest service to God.
~ Ramana Maharshi
If the light of the sun is invisible to the owl it is only the fault of that bird and not of the sun.
~ Ramana Maharshi
If it is asked whether the wise man derives any benefit from the discharge of domestic duties, it may be answered that, as he has already attained the state of complete satisfaction which is the sum total of all benefits and the highest good of all, he does not stand to gain anything more by discharging family duties.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Surrender, and all will be well. Throw all responsibility onto God. Do not bear the burden yourself. (p. 158)
~ Ramana Maharshi
Accept it all your so called SINS are only a result of your unawareness and nothing else. Stay Aware, Live Blissful!
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of.
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU
Blame me not for my mistakes, for that's common, but surely do for my achievements which I'm equally unaware of. - Ramana Pemmaraju
~ RAMANA PEMMARAJU