Quotes About Responsibility

Saint Augustine once admonished that we should never use the truth to injure. I believe there are dark and uncertain moments in our lives when it's not wrong for each of us to feel that he wrote those words especially for us.

When you love somebody, you give up making decisions just for yourself.

I had learned long ago that resolution by itself is not enough; we are what we do, not what we think and feel.

Deviants and monsters ran the camps where families were sent up the chimney or turned into bars of soap, but they would have been powerless without the clerks who sat anonymously behind typewriters and gave them bureaucratic legitimacy.

I wished life consisted of just taking care of animals, the earth, and one's family and friends. In fact, that's what it should be. But it's not, and the explanation for that fact is not one I have ever been able to provide.

Wicked men do not go away of their own accord.

Two kinds of cops eat their gun: the corrupt ones and the ones who let the dead lay claim upon the quick.

Do you know why we drink? So we can do the things our conscience won't let us do when we're sober." If you're a souse, try to refute a statement like that.

I won't try to argue with your experience and what you've shaped out of it. But the world isn't a jail. We just make our own sometimes. Does that make any sense to you?

What we do is punish the people who are available," she said.

Do you know why we drink? So we can do the things our conscience won't let us do when we're sober.

How many lives would have been spared had we not lent ourselves to the defense of a repellent cause like slavery?

I don't like to bust drunk drivers. I don't like to listen to their explanations, watch their pitiful attempts to affect sobriety, or see the sheen of fear break out in their eyes when they realize they're headed for the drunk tank with little to look forward to in the morning except the appearance of their names in the newspaper. Or maybe in truth I just don't like to see myself when I look into their faces.

When chaos loomed, reason and accountability went out of the window.

Without really trying to or meaning to, Mal had become the head of a family, and it was a family that took the fun out of dysfunctional.

If we aren't willing to do whatever is required, he said finally, then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

You don't mind that the war will go on and on?" "Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it's up to people like you to end it." Tarkin nodded. "And so we shall.

Under the rule of the ancient Sith, the future of the galaxy had been in the able hands of many dark sovereigns. Now responsibility for maintaining order rested only with Darth Sidious.

You will be in charge of that, Moff Tarkin. Or should I say Grand Moff Tarkin." Tarkin's gaped in genuine surprise. "Grand Moff?

My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire's intelligence chiefs.

As I say, they don't teach it at the academy, but you learn it on the job: not every man's death is a crime.

Me gustaría aceptar, se lo confieso. No me importa que esté mal visto, pero no puedo: es por los gatos. —¿Los gatos? —Sí. Tenemos muchos, y yo los cuido. Por eso tenía que volver a casa cuanto antes.

When she got home, Bert came out to meet her, and took her into the den, where Letty was trying to quiet Veda. Letty went back to the kitchen, and Veda broke into loud sobs. Over and over, she kept saying: "I owed her a nickel! Oh, Mother, I cheated her out of it, and I meant to pay it back, but—I owed her a nickel!

Leadership has an impact on people's commitment, their desire to stay or leave, their willingness to put forth more discretionary effort, and their inclination to take personal initiative and responsibility. Bad leaders have a dampening effect on these things, and exemplary leaders have just the opposite effect. What sort of difference do you want to achieve through your leadership? The choice is yours.