Quotes About Responsibility

wrongdoers, blaming everybody but themselves. We

For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

Oh, no, no! I am not going to wet this bed." The boy kept his promise, for his pride was involved. That was his bed. He and he alone had bought it. And he was wearing pajamas now like a little man. He wanted to act like a man. And he did.

No te quejes de la nieve en el techo del vecino cuando también cubre el umbral de tu casa

We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.

El ejecutivo que me dice que no puede recordar nombres, me está diciendo que no puede recordar una parte importante de su trabajo, y está operando sobre arenas movedizas. Karen

When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.

from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

We have no right to sit silently by while the inevitable seeds are sown for a harvest of disaster to our children, black and white.

Nations reel and stagger on their way; they make hideous mistakes; they commit frightful wrongs; they do great and beautiful things. And shall we not best guide humanity by telling the truth about all this, so far as the truth is ascertainable?

Comrade, you and I can never be satisfied with sitting down before a great human problem and saying nothing can be done. We must do something. That is the reason we are here on Earth.

it is easier to do ill than well in the world.

the chief problem in any community cursed with crime is not the punishment of the criminals, but the preventing of the young from being trained to crime.

The South ought to be led, by candid and honest criticism, to assert her better self and do her full duty to the race she has cruelly wronged and is still wronging.

From this we may conclude that it behooves nations as well as men to do things at the very moment when they ought to be done.

It is the public schools, however, which can be made, outside the homes, the greatest means of training decent self-respecting citizens.

the burden belongs to the nation, and the hands of none of us are clean if we bend not our energies to righting these great wrongs.

generation after generation have pleaded with a headstrong, careless people to despise not Justice, Mercy, and Truth, lest the nation be smitten with a curse.

Most Romans worked and played as usual while Rome fell about their ears. But surely it is fair to say that when a man becomes depressed, falls down in a sand trap, and decides to shoot himself, something has gone wrong with the man, not the world.

You are a steward of the pain and injustices people have visited upon you. Or, if you prefer we could call you a scrupulous coroner.

there was no shorthand for I'm sorry. You were obliged to speak those two words.

Idle women are always ready to mind other people's business.

It is the firstborn's burden to unravel the knots that younger brothers make.

Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game