Quotes About Responsibility

There's something missing in how we inform the youngsters coming along about what matters in the world. We teach them the letters and numbers, but we fail to inform them about the importance of our connection with the living world

Do your job well, make sure your boss is fully informed, and don't be afraid to ask for help

So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, but should turn their attention to the infant rooms, since it is from there that comes peace or war.

Enjoy and encourage your children's love of learning, but foster their play, responsibility, imagination, affection, and fun so they can grow as whole as well as gifted children.

The developmental needs and tasks of your children should always be at the forefront of your parenting.

I couldn't keep a dog and a James Joyce and a bookshop.

Man has responsibility, not power—Tuscarora

Nature tries to compensate, but is not always successful and thus our planet is now in dire straits and we humans are directly responsible for it.

Many of us ask what can I, as one person, do, but history shows us that everything good and bad starts because somebody does something or does not do something

What we must do is encourage a sea change in attitude, one that acknowledges that we are a part of the living world, not apart from it.

We are going to change the world from this point onward, one way or another. Either from what we do, or what we fail to do.

Far and away the biggest threat to the ocean is ignorance. It's a lack of understanding that what we put in, what we take out matters—not just to the ocean, but matters to us. The ocean cannot be regarded as the planet's ultimate dumpster or the ultimate place to get free food.

The Oath concerns the future, not the past. You earn its Emblem not by your success in passing exams, but by your free acceptance of the responsibility an agent must carry, your consent to the ordeal of that responsibility.

Yet if salvation of the world lay solely in old men's caution, why would young people be born?

Oath concerns the future, not the past. You earn its Emblem not by your success in passing exams, but by your free acceptance of the responsibility an agent must carry, your consent to the ordeal of that responsibility." That

It's like parents choosing to raise their own standard of living rather than to provide for the future of their kids. You wouldn't consider that very admirable would you?

But we cannot all be saints. Some of us have to be stewards.

During the last few years of her life Mrs. Willowes grew continually more skilled in evading responsibilities, and her death seemed but the final perfected expression of this skill. It was as if she had said, yawning a delicate cat's yawn, "I think I will go to my grave now," and had left the room.

If I'm not for myself, who will be for me? And if not now, when? But if I'm only for myself, who am I?

He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.

It is easy to defend the innocent; but who is eloquent enough to defend the guilty?

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

It is difficult to conceive any situation more painful than that of a great man, condemned to watch the lingering agony of an exhausted country, to tend it during the alternate fits of stupefaction and raving which precede its dissolution, to see the symptoms of vitality dissappear one by one, till nothing is left but coldness, darkness, and corruption.

Our grandchildren will live together in a society with the offspring of neglected families. So will yours.