Quotes About Responsibility

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

It's been said that every institution is nothing but the extended shadow of one person.

E xecution—getting the task done, making it happen—is the most unappreciated skill of an effective business leader.

Do not follow the bad example which I have set you; I have often undertaken war too lightly and have sustained it for vanity. Do not imitate me, but be a peaceful prince, and may you apply yourself principally to the alleviation of the burdens of your subjects

God has given me so much. He expects so much out of me.

To whom much has been given, much is expected

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

themselves, so when they do, we have to take advantage of the opportunity. We have to do the right thing.

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can. And you said rarely in life do the big choices present

You said every day we make a million little choices, and we should try to make the right ones as much as we can.

When women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole.

I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not.

Housekeeping ain't no joke.

I don't have to point out, I'm sure, that letters received should be answered within a reasonable time- say a month; but there is such a thing as answering too promptly and writing too long a letter. It makes answering a burden to your correspondent, who will feel obligated to do at least as well as you have done, and will soon be heartily sick of the whole thing.

A man who has cursed the boss all evening to his confreres is almost always a man who goes to bed feeling at peace with the world, and who wakes up ready to put out a good day's work.

This was the thing he never understood: yes, he would give me time to work when I demanded it, but my time was considered to belong to our family unit unless I signalled that I wanted out. His time was considered to belong to himself and his work unless I demanded that he opt in.

What is lack of prevention but denial that there is anything to be prevented?

Why argue that it was "only words" except to imply that words are trivial, neither serious nor harmful, an argument that at the least elides the issue of what exactly was said and by whom.10

When people don't do anything they don't think anything, and when people don't think anything there's nothing to think about them.- Harriet the Spy

IF YOU CAN KEEP YOUR HEAD WHEN ALL ABOUT YOU ARE LOSING THEIRS AND BLAMING IT ON YOU

If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.

Responsibility is our ability to respond to a situation. We always have a choice.

Blame is useless. Blaming only gives away our power. Keep your power. Without power, we cannot make changes. The helpless victim cannot see a way out.