Quotes About Responsibility

I want to do whatever's best for you." "But you please me by letting me please you," she said. "As the male partner I think it's my responsibility to please." "I'm not sure whether that's a sensitive caring statement or a sexist remark." "Is it wrong for the man to be considerate toward his partner?

These were the things that built the world. Not to know or care about them was a betrayal of fundamental principles, a betrayal of gender, of species. What could be more useless than a man who couldn't fix a dripping faucet—fundamentally useless, dead to history, to the messages in his genes? I wasn't sure I disagreed.

There is a piece of Chinese wisdom," she said. "To know and not to act is not to know.

What people in an exodus fear most immediately is that those in positions of authority will long since have fled, leaving us

To know and not to act is not to know

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.

Nothing other people do is because of you.

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be impeccable with your word. Your word is the power that you have to create. Your word is the gift that comes directly from God. The Gospel of John in the Bible, speaking of the creation of the universe says, "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word is God." Through the word you express your creative power. It is through the world that you manifest everything. The world is a force... Your word is pure magic, and misuse of your word is black magic.

No one is responsible for your emotional reactions except you. Others can say and do anything they like but what happens inside you is only the result of what you are thinking and feeling.

Suppose I try to use an everyday thing, but I can't. Who is at fault: me or the thing? We are apt to blame ourselves, especially if others are able to use it. Suppose the fault really lies in the device, so that lots of people have the same problems. Because everyone perceives the fault to be his or her own, nobody wants to admit to having trouble. This creates a conspiracy of silence, where the feelings of guilt and helplessness among people are kept hidden.

Blaming a person is seldom appropriate or useful, a

It is the duty of machines and those who design them to understand people.

Well, what shall I do next? What is the next thing demanded of me by history?

Anyone can be captain in a calm sea.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.1   —President Gerald Ford

You don't reward failure by promoting those responsible for it, because all you get is more failure.

This mess calls for leadership in the worst way.

Shakespeare put it this way, in a famous quote from Julius Caesar: "The fault is not in our stars, dear Brutus, but in ourselves." That's a clear message. We are responsible for ourselves. We are responsible for our own luck. What an empowering thought! If you see responsibility as a bum deal, then you are not seeing it for what it really is—a great opportunity.

We all know people who have great ideas about how to make millions of dollars, but are too lazy to get off the couch. We all know people who live in the future, and fail to take action today. There are millions of people who want to change the world, but cannot change the conditions of their own lives. And we all know people who lie, cheat, and steal, and yet lie again to themselves, believing they are people of integrity.

Para mim, comitês são o que pessoas inseguras criam a fim de postergar a tomada de decisões difíceis.

Barnard suddenly realized, with gloomy introspection, that "I had the legal system of the United States to thank for the honor of being the first surgeon in the world to have done a heart transplant.