Quotes About Responsibility

I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.

As Maynard Keynes famously observed: "If I owe you a pound, I have a problem, but if I owe you a million, the problem is yours.

Acts of government are not choices between good and bad. They are between two evils – the lesser of two evils. Someone is always going to get hurt by a decision of government . . . absolute morality, absolute ethics just does not exist in affairs of the state.'99

Wake him or put a bullet through his brain. No one will protest. Or leave him—but I suggest choosing, my dear. I have learned it is best to be haunted by one's actions rather than one's lack of them.

You're either an agent of change, or a victim of it

In our family, you don't get a childhood. We're too busy trying to dominate the world.

He came to chat with me the day of my being discharged, advising that I not stay at the dog fight until the last dog was dead. I was a kid and made little counsel. Now that I am a bigger kid, I see the value--belatedly--added. Yet I also see the loss of life in the protecting, first of all, of oneself. Better to give oneself away. Dead f*ck the dog and so on.

Era a sensação que eu tinha - era o que sentia. Quando eu tinha seis anos, eu tinha a sensação de que eu era aquele que tinha que observar as coisas para as pessoas, que tinha que ver as coisas para as pessoas, que se eu não fizesse isso, então elas não seriam vistas.

To imagine that we are solely, or even primarily, responsible for the successes and failures of our children is a narcissistic myth.

We are responsible for most of what happens to us.

number of people, throws the problem their way, and says, "Don't bother me again until you have a solution." That's a tiger team. Get what I'm saying?

every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to cry aloud from the house-top. I ceased

If you are in a position of power and want to lead well, remember: Allow those you lead... To lead... when they feel the need. All will benefit.

Years of research and study show that a child was designed to be raised and educated at home because the most important element in a child's development towards maturity is his attachment to those who are responsible for him (a.k.a. parents)

Children do not automatically grant us the authority to parent them just because we are adults, or just because we love them or think we know what is good for them or have their best interests at heart.

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I've never been a hands-on dad. I'm not ashamed to admit it, but you can't run a restaurant and be home for tea at 4:30 and bath and change nappies.

Living with an addict is a 24/7 business. It's a bit like having a baby. You're joined at the hip, and every five minutes you're hit with that paranoia: where is he? What's he doing? What's he up to? If he was going somewhere, we made him call us as soon as he arrived; if a journey was supposed to take ten minutes, and he took twenty, we'd be going: why are you late?

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

A man ought not never to get drunk above the neck.

If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot.

Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.

If there is a just God, how humanity would writhe in its attempt to justify its treatment of animals.