Quotes About Responsibility

Epictetus said: The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Have the courage to say "no!" Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. Do it now!

A free people should be governed by law and not by the whims of men.

Jefferson felt it should be the goal of the whole nation to use education and every other means to stimulate and encourage those citizens who clearly exhibited a special talent for public service. He felt one of the greatest threats to the new government would be the day when the best qualified people refused to undertake the tedious, arduous, and sometimes unpleasant task of filling important public offices.

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

The worker is not the problem. The problem is at the top! Management!

Any substantial improvement must come from action on the system, the responsibility of management. Wishing and pleading and begging the workers to do better was totally futile.

quality control departments have taken the job of quality away from the people that can contribute most to quality—management, supervisors, managers of purchasing, and production workers.

To manage, one must lead. To lead, one must understand the work that he and his people are responsible for.

Schools of business responded to popular demand for finance and creative accounting. The results are decline.

It is not enough that top management commit themselves for life to quality and productivity. They must know what it is that they are committed to- that is what they must do.

Put everybody in the company to work to accomplish the transformation. The transformation is everybody's job.

She asked a vendor if it would not be a good idea to inform the customer that his order will come late. No, he would get mad. Well, what happens when you deliver order late? He gets mad. Then why didn't you tell him in advance, so that he could prepare? He would get mad twice.

Blame the process, not the people.

The superintendent is afraid to make a decision. If he does nothing, he has nothing to explain to his superiors. No explanation is required if a man in management for doing nothing.

The pay and privilege of the captains of industry are now so closely linked to the quarterly dividend that they may find it personally unrewarding to do what is right for the company.

I was terrified. Especially because of the kids. It's such a big responsibility to take other people's children out in public these days. Who can tell what terrible thing will happen?

From the conservative dark Into the ethical life The dense commuters come, Repeating their morning vow.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.

To save your world, you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, asked why?