Quotes About Responsibility

Every time a child is harmed, HUMANITY takes a backward step

To maximize return on investment is an inadequate statement of purpose. It fails to accomplish the paramount responsibility of leadership—to provide meaning and inspiration to those who are expected to follow. The mass of people within our corporations are not primarily motivated by maximizing private gain. Many firms are structured as if they were….

Business must be run at a profit…, else it will die. But when any one attempts to run a business solely for profit and thinks not at all of the service to the community, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Shiloh showed him what he could ask of his men, and indeed what he MUST ask of them.

Be responsible with the energy put out into the universe

Constructive or destructive, the choice is ours

Don't make other people's issues your own

The best information in the world is useless if we do nothing with it

The garden we tend to flourishes, the garden we neglect withers away

We create our Karma and we can change it

We too often look to God to fix everything. God didn't create our problems. This is our doing. We have free will. And this is what we choose to do with it. We can accept responsibility for our thoughts as well as our actions. We can choose something different. We can choose love. And we can create a beautiful garden.

He remembered the saying "Raise a son for your old years." He reasoned, Even though a boy is believed superior to a girl, his life may not be easy either. He will have to become a provider for his parents when he grows up. Selfish. How often parents have sons so that they can exploit them in the future. They prefer boys to girls mainly because sons will provide more, are worth more as capital.

A crime is born in the gap between the morality of society and that of the individual.

The living must look after one another, he thought. The worst possible outcome is to die without having lived.

I have carried this abscess too far, Tunisia is going through a difficult period. Freedom is dangerous.

When a house is on fire, the neighbors' duty is to put it out.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

Like a trained surgeon who is careful where he cuts, parents, too, need to become skilled in the use of words. Because words are like knives. They can inflict, if not physical, many painful emotional wounds.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other; on the contrary, they breed and reinforce each other. Punishment does not deter misconduct. It makes the offender more skillful in escaping detection. When children are punished they resolve to be more careful, not more obedient or responsible. Parents