Quotes About Responsibility

Effective health care depends on self-care; this fact is currently heralded as if it were a discovery.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Bob" can handle the aliens, but we must police ourselves.

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else.

Any woman who has a career and a family automatically develops something in the way of two personalities, like two sides of a dollar bill, each different in design. ... Her problem is to keep one from draining the life from the other.

when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.

I remember that a wise friend of mine did usually say, "That which is everybody's business is nobody's business."

C. S. Lewis once wrote that man has two clues to the meaning of the universe. One is the knowledge of a law that he did not make but is obligated to keep; the other is the knowledge that he does not and cannot keep it.

A good test of the appropriateness of a joke is whether the humor controls us or we control it.

Pursuing the goal, the leader never looks back or calculates escape strategies if plans turn sour. Nor does a true leader cast blame for failure on subordinates.

Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.

The quality of a person's leadership will be in part measured by time: its use and its passage.

Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.

The leader cannot spend time on secondary matters while essential obligations scream for attention. A day needs careful planning.

If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own biography means to get clear about who one wants to be.

Freedom may never be conceived merely negatively, as the absence of compulsion. Freedom conceived intersubjectively distinguishes itself from the arbitrary freedom of the isolated individual. No one is free until we are all free.

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Today really matters if tomorrow really counts!

What your body does is unrelated to your heart. Don't believe it. The same survey reports that hooking up commonly takes place when both participants are drinking or drunk, and it's not hard to guess the reason why: After a certain amount of this, you may need to get drunk to go through with it.