Quotes About Responsibility

Perhaps she would learn in time to permit both her daughter and her gods to govern their own affairs.

Listen, you are no longer a boy. You are forty. When will you learn not to wait for chance but to build on what you have and use each day to consolidate your position? Why have you never been anything more than Tribune? Because your plans always begin with next month.

The growing children are misshapen by those parents who were in various ways warped by the blindness, ignorance, and passions of their own parents; and one's own errors impoverish and cripple one's children? Such is the endless chain of the generations?

the more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

There is great comfort in knowing that those who love you love you enough to take the responsibility for marking out the permissible.

children are a thing only a parent can stand

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive.

Don't put your life in someone's hands They bound to steal it away Don't hide your mistakes 'Cause they'll find you, burn you

If her years as a reporter had taught her anything, it was these two things: One, the world was filled with people who were adrift, rudderless, and untethered. And two, the innocent always paid for the sins of the guilty.

We can't be responsible for other people's reactions to us, Lakshmi," she said. "We can only make sure our intentions are good.

What she and Serabai had built together, Viraf has destroyed. Women create, Bhima thinks, men destroy. The way of the world.

We're responsible. We have control. The clear nature of our mind is always there, waiting to be revealed when the clouds of the disturbing attitudes are dispelled. This is our human beauty; this is our potential.

Problems exist in the minds of individuals. You have to solve your own problems, no matter what kind of society you live in—socialist, communist or capitalist. You must check your own mind. Your problem is not society's problem, not my problem. You are responsible for your own problems just as you're responsible for your own liberation or enlightenment.

Those who really deserve praise are the people who, while human enough to enjoy power, nevertheless pay more attention to justice than they are compelled to do by their situation.

Men make the city, and not walls or ships without men in them.

A private man, however successful in his own dealing, if his country perish is involved in her destruction; but if he be an unprosperous citizen of a prosperous city, he is much more likely to recover. Seeing, then, that States can bear the misfortunes of individuals, but individuals cannot bear the misfortunes of States, let us all stand by our country.

When one is deprived of ones liberty, one is right in blaming not so much the man who puts the shackles on as the one who had the power to prevent him, but did not use it.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Are you not sunk in the mires of a household?

Whatever tasks befall you, do not engage in malicious jokes that tear at others' hearts or cause them to lose their composure. Regardless of their culpability, avoid insulting and speaking harshly to others—whether close or distant, good or bad.

Instead you recognize all such tasks as obligations, so boastfulness toward others simply does not occur.

He had used it as the epigram to his 1967 book 'To Seek a Newer World,' and it expressed two pillars of his faith: that everyone has a duty to alleviate suffering, and that no one can live a fully happy life while surrounded by the unaddressed misery of others.

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

Girls are given the weight of the world, but nowhere to put it down.