Quotes About Responsibility

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Adults are obsolete children...

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us.

If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.

I've used up all my sick days so I'm calling in dead.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it... Obedience to the law is demanded as a right, not asked as a favor.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

Many Buddhist practitioners recite the Five Remembrances daily. The fifth is, "My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand."

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

...words are slippery and tricky creatures, whether they drop from the tip of the tongue or of the pen, and when used in important matters, cannot be too carefully watched or too strongly manacled.

A leader who doesn't hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Leadership is often nothing more than doing the right thing and inspiring others to the same.

Every leader needs to look back once in a while to make sure he has followers.

A man can never be idle with safety and advantage until he has been so trained by work that he makes his freedom from times and tasks more fruitful than his toil has been. When work has disciplined a man, he may safely be left to himself...

Life: What you choose to make it.

Working on the assumption (and it is only an assumption) that we have one life each it is important to every one of us that we do the best we can with it. If society says to us: 'We are prepared to look after you from the cradle to the grave provided you live in a boring place and work at a boring job' then we should consider very seriously whether this is a bargain we want to accept.

To encourage Literature & the Arts, is a duty which every good Citizen owes to his Country...

Our democracy needs a robust press to hold our leaders accountable and cover the important issues facing our communities. The First Amendment belongs to all of us.

Work on Monday?! My mind is telling me no, but my wallet says yes.

Without doubt half the ethical rules they din into our ears are designed to keep us at work.

As ye sew, so shall ye rip.