Quotes About Responsibility

And it was all your fault, Harry.

Do you remember the hardest lesson of power?" "Knowing when not to use it?

Good, because your mother says you're not getting out of helping in the kitchen just because you're a faerie princess now. She got you those long kitchen gloves so that you can still wash dishes.

Death is as light as a feather, duty heavier than a spire.

You can't change what has already happened. But you choose what to do next. Which means that you only cross over to the dark side if you choose to do it.

God isn't about making good things happen to you,or bad things happen to you. He's all about making choice - exercising the gift of free will.

Harry Dresden—I take responsibility for more impossible situations in the first twenty-four hours of being dead than most people do all day.

Children run everywhere for a reason--it's fun. Grown-ups can forget that sometimes.

He had traded the lives of people he did not know for those of men he did. That was, he supposed, human nature.

I told you long ago that being a real wizard means sacrifice. It means knowing things no one else does," he said, still growling. "I told you that it meant that you might have to act upon what you knew, and knew to be right, even though the whole world set its hand against you. Or that you might have to do horrible, necessary things. Do you remember that?

you can't go around changing your definition of right and wrong (or smart and stupid) just because doing the wrong thing happens to be really convenient. Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.

Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either." "Why not? You've done it before. And you've got a new gun and everything.

Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I was a man seeking power. For good reasons, maybe. But I wasn't going to lie to myself or anyone else about my actions. If I killed him, I would be taking a life, something that was not mine to take. I would be committing deliberate, calculated murder.

He was wrong, that doesn't make him a villian. That makes him an asshole.

It. Wasn't. Right. No, it wasn't. But the world wasn't a fair place, was it? And I had more reason to know that than most people twice my age. The world wasn't nice, and it wasn't fair. People who didn't deserve it suffered and died every single day. So what? So somebody ought to do something about it.

The building was on fire, and it wasn't my fault

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

How long do I have to take care of it?" I asked. "SOON." "Soon? How soon is soon? What do you mean, soon?

Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves.

In combat situations, your choices can be judged based only against what you knew at the time. To expect anything more of a soldier is to demand that he or she be superhuman. Which seems, to me, unreasonable.

A good man, almost by definition, would seriously question any decisions he made that led to such terrible consequences for others. Especially if those others trusted him.

It's okay to hurt. It's not okay to fail the people who rely on me. That was my point of balance.