Quotes About Responsibility

We got a duty . . . we all got the same duty, all of us, Major." Armistead

Saw groups of men, some huddled in intense conversation, others waving big cigars, broad-chested men with loud voices, proclaiming their opinions with the mindless flourish of those who share no responsibility for the consequences of their grand ideas.

Is that not what a commander must do, earn respect, give them discipline and . . . love them?

Two things an officer must do, to lead men. This from old Ames, who never cared about love: You must care for your men's welfare. You must show physical courage. Well

no one should have to be ordered to prepare for war. It's a dangerous world

Dammit, you've got a job to do! He tried to pull energy—confidence—from the faces of the others, even from men who had never done this before.

Every Marine was trained in handling a rifle, no matter what noncombat job he might assume down the road. Right now, at Hagaru-ri, every Marine was now a rifleman.

Imagine that the correct words had been chosen by those people who are in charge of our lives. A few well-though-out words and things might have been different. Unfortunately, they have chosen all the wrong words.

Parents know all about the verses related to how children should behave but not so much about those that remind them about how they should behave.

I cannot make my kids obey. But I can control my responses to their disobedience—that is, I can respect their choices and provide wise consequences for their actions, so they can learn just as much about wisdom from disobeying as from obeying. And I can respond in ways that create an environment in which their poor choices are their problem.

Your children should not have to act appropriately so that you can feel like a valuable person. It is not their job to validate you or erase past relationship indictments against you with their performance. In a healthy Christian family children are not there for the adults, adults are there to be resources for their children.

toss a weighted paper bag out.

chest. 'You are committing a felony! There

You bet they did. Dellray was there. You should've seen him. He ordered every other case put on hold and said if metallurgy report wasn't in your hands ASAP there'd be one mean mother——you get the picture——reaming their——you get the rest of the picture.

didn't install them promptly then there's nothing we can do.

One of the advantages of real worth is that menial tasks can always be left to someone else.

publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil

A police uniform, he was warned by the commander on his first day on parade, could change a person's personality, and not always for the better.

Harry would have laughed if he hadn't been sitting in No.lO Downing Street opposite one of the busiest men in the country.

you should take your consciences with you, and leave your politics in the chamber.' Lord

Parents, Maisie had learnt over the years, may be considered an unfortunate necessity by their offspring, but more often than not they are also an embarrassment.

politicians should think a lot more carefully before they commit the next generation to war.

But then it was Thomas More who reminded us that when you don these robes you must be willing to make decisions that will rarely please all men. And indeed, my lords, on three such occasions in the past, the Lord Chancellor, having delivered his judgment, was later that day beheaded.' The

Think twice before you employ members of your own family and never assume that anyone will pay their debts.