Quotes About Responsibility

Self-Blame. You blame yourself for something you weren't entirely responsible for, or you beat up on yourself because of some mistake you made.

Other-Blame.You blame others and overlook ways you might have contributed to the conflict.

Producing laws is not an easier job than producing cars and food, so if the government is incompetent to produce cars or food, why do you expect it to do a good job producing the legal system within which you are then going to produce the cars and the food?

Limited money and family obligations have never stopped a man who really wanted to do something, although they provide excuses for a man who is not really up to the creative challenge in the first place. Find out today whether you are willing to do what it takes.

How can you be more responsible? Not necessarily by doing more work. You become more responsible by knowing your deepest purpose, and then arranging your finances and spiritual life from that knowingness.

However, if you give up your real decision to follow your woman's, then you will blame her for being wrong if she is wrong, and you will feel disempowered if she is right, having denied yourself the opportunity to act from your core and grow from your mistakes.

If you are like most men, however, you probably end up feeling burdened by your woman's mood. You feel your woman is a pain in the ass. You wish your woman would leave you alone and take care of herself. Eventually you feel worn down, or frustrated. You end up simply tolerating your woman's moods, while resentment builds inside of you. You wonder, what's her problem? Why can't she just be happy?

Some men feel guilty for not being as "into" the relationship as their woman is. You must understand that this is natural.

A superior man always assumes complete responsibility, knowing that, ultimately, he has no control at all and everything is out of his hands. He acts with impeccable courage and persistence, expecting nothing but the inherent feeling of completeness he enjoys in the fullest giving of his gift.

can't fix the roof when it's raining, and when the sun comes out the roof don't leak no more. The

the world might be better off if more people accepted responsibility and dealt with consequences. — Dave Drake david-drake.com

You have to know exactly what you're doing before you decide to use guns.

When you screw up real bad, you can either be afraid or you can flare out in anger and blame somebody else. Not because you don't know better, but because it's the only way to control your fear. It isn't pretty, but there's no pretty way to screw up bad.

One of the less attractive aspects of human nature is our tendency to hate the people we haven't treated very well; it's much easier than accepting guilt. If we can convince ourselves that the people we betrayed or enslaved were subhuman monsters in the first place, then our guilt isn't nearly so black as we secretly know that it is. Humans are very, very good at shifting blame and avoiding guilt.

It's all very well to put the government in the hands of the perfect man, but what do you do when the perfect man gets a bellyache?

The unfortunate thing about working for yourself is that you have the worst boss in the world. I work every day of the year except at Christmas, when I work a half day.

Ce'Nedra returned, frowning and a little angry. They won't give me their eggs, Lady Polgara, she complained. They're sitting one them. You have to reach under them and take the eggs, dear. Won't that make them angry? Are you afraid of a chicken?

I'd really like to go with you, Agachak. Truly I would...but I just can't. I don't understand. Why not? I'm not allowed to leave home. My mother'd punish me something awful if I did... But you're the king. That doesn't change a thing. I still do what mother says. She tells everybody that I'm the best boy ever when it comes to that. Agachak resisted a powerful urge to change this half-wit into a toad or perhaps a jellyfish.

Who owns a man, Durnik?" the blond young man asked sadly. "The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

just because you can do something doesn't necessarily mean that you should.

Little jobs require little men, and it's the little jobs that keep a kingdom running.

You're going to be a father. Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'll throw up again.

Do you ever plan to grow up, Veltan?" he asked. "Not if I can avoid it, no.

The queen sighed. What am I going to do with all of you now! You're going to let us continue our journey, Belgarath replied calmly. We'll argue about it, of course, but in the end that's the way it'll turn out. She stared at him. You did ask, after all. I'm sure you feel better now that you know.