Quotes About Responsibility

My dad says fine tools always get fine care.

Stigmas as the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable.

It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

If I had married a woman intelligent enough to guide me, to rule me without my feeling that I was ruled, I should have taken good care of my money, I should have had children, and I should not be, as now I am, alone in the world and possessing nothing.

It is always easy to break one's word to oneself.

Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.

As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore, I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher.

People are ashamed, not of the injustices they do, but of those they receive. And so, in order that the unjust person should be ashamed, there is no other way than to give as good as one gets.

As soon as the child is born, the mother who has just brought him into the world must console him, quiet his crying, and lighten the burden of the existence she has given him. And in truth it is only fitting that the good father and the good mother, in trying to console their children, correct as best they can, and ease, the damage they have done by procreating them. Good God! Why then is man born? And why does he procreate? To console those he has given birth to for having been born?

Le parole sono anche atti, dei quali è necessario fronteggiare le conseguenze.

We know a lot of ugly things happen in the world and we can't allow ourselves to get indignant about all of them. We have limited reserves of indignation. But when the events are so close, when they touch you personally, what must you do? It's one thing not being able to do anything – you know something isn't right, but you can't do anything about it – it's quite another when you have in your own hands the possibility of reacting in some way.

Un fantasma si aggira per l'Italia: l'idea che tutto sia dovuto, che non ci si debba impegnare per ottenere risultati e che la colpa dei nostri problemi sia sempre degli altri. Questo atteggiamento mentale autoassolutorio si traduce quasi naturalmente nell'offesa rispetto ai titolari dei privilegi, veri o presunti.

All'inizio fui colto dall'euforia [...] Poi l'euforia svanì e lasciò il posto allo sgomento. La pillola, il suo rituale e quello che c'era intorno erano stati, in quegli anni, alibi perfetti per evitare ogni responsabilità e sentirmi anche in credito con la vita. Adesso, di punto in bianco, gli alibi non c'erano più [...] D'un tratto mi ritrovavo in mare aperto, e non ero pronto

quella che il giusto prova davanti alla colpa commessa da altrui, e gli rimorde che esista, che sia stata introdotta irrevocabilmente nel mondo delle cose che esistono, e che la sua volontà buona sia stata nulla o scarsa, e non abbia valso a difesa".

Unless we practice conservation, those who come after us will have to pay the price of misery, degradation, and failure for the progress and prosperity of our day.

Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.

When you keep someone waiting you give him time to count up your faults.

Science in the modern world has many uses its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

The family is the test of freedom because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.

we have the idea that there are big sins and little sins. But the book of James tells us that, 'Whosoever shall keep the whole law yet offend in one point, the same is guilty of all.' Do you see what that means? We think that murder is a much worse sin than gossip or telling a lie, but according to God, they are both offenses against His law, and we become offenders whether we commit murder or adultery

In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.