Quotes About Responsibility

Missglückte Lebensgeschichten zu erzählen, anderen die Schuld zuzuschieben, die "Mängel aufzuzeigen", ist allemal leichter, als mühsame, aber erfolgreiche Werdegänge darzustellen, ohne in die Nähe von Kitsch zu geraten.

Climate risk teaches us that the nation is not the centre of the world.

Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

È ora che ti faccia accorciare i capelli» disse una mattina ad Ernesto sua madre. « Cosí non ti voglio piú vedere. Prima di pranzo, passa da Bernardo. Eccoti i soldi». Bernardo era un barbiere che aveva la bottega in faccia alla casa di Ernesto. Da piú di un mese la signora Celestina pregava Ernesto di farsi fare quella piccola operazione. Molto amante dell'ordine, non poteva vedere suo figlio andare in giro come un selvaggio

Promises are prisons, after all, and the breaking of a promise can poison.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Unless your name ends in Baskin or Robbins, I really can't fit you into my schedule right now.

Winners make goals, losers make excuses

Even when opportunity knocks a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door

Freedom is never free.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it

If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

"Idleness is the beginning of all vices."

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it

I have half a conscience to go ahead and do it, and feel guilty afterwards

The earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites one family. Man did not weave the web of life; he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web he does to himself.

A baby-sitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe, depending on his bringing up.

Middle age is when work is a lot less fun and fun is a lot more work.

Some parents could do more for their children by not doing so much for them

Businesses may come and go, but religion will last forever, for in no other endeavor does the consumer blame himself for product failure