Quotes About Responsibility

Responsibility in children starts with the parents' attitude and skills. The attitudes include a willingness to allow children to feel all their feelings; the skills include an ability to demonstrate to children acceptable ways of coping with feelings. The

A warning serves as a challenge to the child's autonomy.

The plain fact is that responsibility cannot be imposed. It can only grow from within, fed and directed by values absorbed at home and in the community. Responsibility that is not anchored in positive values can be antisocial and destructive. Gang members often show great loyalty and strong responsibility in relation to one another and to their gang. Terrorists take their duties in dead earnest; they carry out commands, even if they involve sacrificing their own lives. The

When the child is allowed to experience the self as an individual with self-originating needs and goals, that child begins to assume responsibility for his or her own life and its demands. Allowance:

The limit against hitting a parent should not be modified under any circumstances. Effective upbringing is based on mutual respect between parent and child without the parent's abdicating the adult role.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

While parents possess the original key to their offspring's experience, teachers have a spare key. They, too, can open or close the minds and hearts of children.

I told the others which trees to chop, where to get the mud, even though I was not the official leader. My father used to say, 'Thing like a boss, not like a worker.' He meant that it is better to use your brain and be active than to be sullen and passive, as most workers are. I worked harder than anyone in the crew because it kept my mind sharp and because it kept me from thinking about other things.

I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you'll find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil. I will be struggling thirty years later. I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well – disproportionately well.

Maybe there's no secret essence inside me or you or them or anybody, nothing except what we choose for ourselves. No fate, no future, no past... except what we choose. No slaves and masters for the soul, only whores and politicians.

Grace, properly understood, neither returns void, nor promote loose living!

f the lion in us wishes to roar but the goat bleats instead, we must pay for this substitution in one way or another. Payment will vary: For some, it will be experienced as depression, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, or a growing unconsciousness. For others, it can be uncontrollable, seemingly irrational behavior, during which life, fortune, profession, or marriage may be risked. In its most extreme form, the price may be a physical breakdown that can lead to illness or even death.

If the lion in us wishes to roar but the goat bleats instead, we must pay for this substitution in one way or another. Payment will vary: For some, it will be experienced as depression, a loss of energy and enthusiasm, or a growing unconsciousness. For others, it can be uncontrollable, seemingly irrational behavior, during which life, fortune, profession, or marriage may be risked. In its most extreme form, the price may be a physical breakdown that can lead to illness or even death.

My mother calls once a year to ask when I'm going back to studies. This is Croatian slang for "the money's up.

Se stie insa ca sursa tuturor greutatilor moderne este ceea ce numesc eu inertia masculina. Problemele in casnicie au aparut numai dupa ce barbatii nu au mai plecat pe mare si au inceput in schimb sa bocaneasca pe langa casa in weekenduri. Barbatii au inteles si ei in sfarsit chestia asta si incearca sa umple tot acest timp liber care le ramane cu treburi urgente imaginare.

can't carry all this weight, so I must put it somewhere and somewhere is with you. You will take good care of it?

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence, and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I like the sea, but it's not a creature I want to take liberties with.

It is a privilege to be in a position to offer charity and an honor to fulfill a divine obligation.

When people are completely immersed in the material world, believing that this world is all that matters and all that exists and that they are not accountable for their actions, they affect a spiritual death of their hearts.

Before us they planted, and now we eat what they have planted. We too must plant, so that those after us will likewise eat.

Act for your world as if you will live forever, and act for your Hereafter as if you are going to die tomorrow.

Jason you can't control the universe and everything that happens in it, but you can control your reaction to it. You can control you, and how you choose to live each day.