Quotes About Responsibility

Ingratitude towards their great men," says Plutarch, "is the mark of strong peoples.

Everything was duty. It was not merely that nothing else mattered. There was nothing else. One did one's duty as well as one possibly could, be it great or small, and naturally one deserved no reward.

We have always sent two-thirds of what was necessary a month too late.

quedó libre de toda responsabilidad y dedicado a contemplar las faltas inevitables, las debilidades, las sorpresas y los desengaños que la lucha tenía reservados.

Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.

It's ridiculous what little the French do!

while here and there the bright flashes of the guns or the occasional whistle of a random bullet accompanied our path, the conviction came into my mind with absolute assurance that the simple soldiers and their regimental officers, armed with their cause, would by their virtues in the end retrieve the mistakes and ignorances of Staffs and Cabinets, of Admirals, Generals and politicians—

would be wrong not to lay the lessons of the past before the future. Let no one look down on those honourable, well-meaning men whose actions are chronicled in these pages, without searching his own heart, reviewing his own discharge of public duty, and applying the lessons of the past to his future conduct.

The veils of the future are lifted one by one, and mortals must act from day to day.

I lived in fact from mouth to hand.

It is not every councillor who, like the Bastard in 'King John,' will say to his sovereign: 'But if you be afeared to hear the worst, Then let the worst unheard fall on your head.

There are two supreme obligations which rest upon a British government. They are of equal importance. One is to strive to prevent a war, and the other is to be ready if war should come.

Para crear las condiciones desfavorables para sí misma, en las que Alemania produjo la guerra, eran, sin embargo, todavía necesarios muchos actos de absoluta imprudencia por parte de sus gobernantes.

People who are not prepared to do unpopular things and to defy clamour are not fit to be Ministers in times of stress.

Po ka?dej wojnie kto? musi posprz?ta?.

After every war someone has to clean up. Things won't straighten themselves up, after all.

Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back.

There is nothing that the mature hate more, there is nothing that disgusts them more, than immaturity

Vadinas, varomoji j?ga yra ne individo s?žin?, o santykis, atsirad?s tarp jo ir kit? žmoni?. Ne tod?l blogai elgiam?s, kad sunaikinome savyje Diev?, o tod?l, kad Dievas ir net Šetonas tampa nesvarb?s, nes sankcij? veiksmui suteikia kitas žmogus.

Nie, Kancie! Twoja Krytyka, cho?by najbardziej Å›cisÅ'a i najgÅ'Ä™bsza, w siódmych potach pisana, nie wystarczy. SiekierÄ™ zÅ'ap! ZÅ'ap, mówiÄ™, siekierÄ™, wpadnij z siekierÄ… i ciach, na prawo i lewo, dzieci i kobiety, mÅ'odzie? i robotników, i w ogóle wszystkich, tak, wszystkich i wszystkich!... TÄ™pienie gÅ'upoty nie mo?e odbywa? siÄ™ tylko na papierze!

Sehen Sie, gerade in der Kunst brauchen wir wieder eine Jugend die zu allen Problemen akitv Stellung nimmt.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in my bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

We Are The Sum Total Of Our Choices...

In my house I'm the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.