Quotes About Responsibility

Sewing forever, housework whenever.

Nurses can take the pressure.

You know you're a nurse if… you triage the laundry at home.

Yes, having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

Each day of our lives we make deposits into the memory banks of our children.

Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.

Today the accent is on youth but the stress is on the parents.

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.

You have a lifetime to work, but children are only young once.

I think there's one higher office than president, and I would call that patriot...

A statesman is a man that can do what the politician would like to do but can't because he is afraid of not being elected.

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can be killed only once, but in politics many times.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

The psychological principle is this: anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.

Do not put off until tomorrow what can be put off till day-after-tomorrow just as well.

Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.

Oaths are but words, and words but wind...

He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

Nothing weights lighter than a promise.

Promises make debt, and debt makes promises.

Promises may get thee Friends, but Nonperformance will turn them into Enemies.

It is bad enough to see one's own good things fathered on other people, but it is worse to have other people's rubbish fathered upon oneself.

In these circumstances I think we must take the bull by the horns... and, making due allowances, quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.