Quotes About Responsibility

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar.

Isn't the media supposed to keep government responsible?

I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That's my responsibility as being part of this planet.

I wonder where in the world it would be possible to have the ideal, a middle way, a balance between individuality and responsibility to the larger community. Easily named, of course, but I cannot begin to imagine where to achieve it.

Do not commit the error so common among the young of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind, you have failed.

If we take care the Nature it will be our careful Mother.

A former marine, Paula Stark has been a firefighter for twenty-five years, and Summer Beach had been fortunate to get her. Although the local fire department served the community, they were also brought into the larger firefighting efforts in the region when needed.

Ivy could have pointed out that their eldest sister rarely got to spend time with their parents, but Shelly knew that.

Preparing the young minds and hearts of the next generation is imperative work.

The unfortunate ones of the world were subjected to a more lingering torment, and the fortunate ones were merely condemned to watch it from a front seat, unwilling tricoteuses at an execution they were powerless to prevent. The least they could do was not to turn away their eyes; for with such a picture stamped upon the retina of their memory they would not be able to lie easy until they had done their best to ensure that it could never happen again.

I would not have shied away from an assignment to sail a canoe around Cape Horn or to take charge of the government of Afghanistan.

The hours slipped by, and the men and the girls talked and talked as only communists of that wild and irresponsible period could talk when they were among themselves. They were as preoccupied with their own importance and their revolutionairy tasks as children are with new and engrossing toys. I listened as if under a spell. After all, compared with the tight-lipped conspirators of a later decade, we were like children partaking of a heavy wine.

The hours slipped by, and the men and the girls talked and talked as only communists of that wild and irresponsible period could talk when they were omong themselves. They were as preoccupied with their own importance and their revolutionairy tasks as children are with new and engrossing toys. I listened as if under a spell. After all, compared with the tight-lipped conspirators of a later decade, we were like children partaking of a heavy wine.

doing everything ourselves isn't heroic—it's toxic.

I feel like he's a guest at the hotel I'm running. I'm constantly taking a silent feminist stand to see if he'll step up and lend a hand. The scorekeeping never ends.

I'm so tired of asking Andrew to do things around the house. No one has to ask me. You know why? Because I just get on with it.

Finally, many experts tell me that the best—some say only—way to teach one's husband to learn the ropes and appreciate the volume of work you do is often the technique that is least used: leave the damn house.

If you're in a constant state of Self-Righteous Angry Victim, you're fucked. It's over. You're not a victim. So knock it off.

a Pew Research Center survey found that sharing household chores ranked third in importance on a list of nine items associated with successful marriages.

Children benefit, too, in surprising ways: research has shown that when men share housework and childcare, their kids do better in school and are less likely to see a child psychiatrist or be put on behavioral medication.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I am not one of those who believe - broadly speaking - that women are better than men. We have not wrecked railroads, nor corrupted legislatures, nor done many unholy things that men have done; but then we must remember that we have not had the chance.

Action is indeed the sole medium of expression for ethics. (U.S. Social Worker, 1860-1935)

Nothing can be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon and left one unexpended effort which might have saved the world.