Quotes About Responsibility

Every time I stole a dollar I knew I was breaking a law and working a hardship on the loser. Yet for years I kept on doing it. I wonder how many of us quit wronging others for the best reason of all — because it is wrong, and we know it.

It only took a couple of trips Downtown to realize that we had met the enemy and he was us.

We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.

The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.

A war produces corpses, but it does not bury them. At least, it doesn't bury them deep. I suspected that North's corpses were coming back to greet him, for we all have a string of spirits trailing at our back. They are like the anchoring tail of an enormous kite. If you handle them with respect, they only whisper a little bit sometimes, and the trail behind you is faded and vague. Handle them wrong--as North, perhaps, was finding out--and the spirits turn from mist to the dark smoke of napalm.

It's just common sense," Mari objected. "Help people realize that what they do matters, that their efforts count and that everyone needs to work together, and they'll work and fight better." Patila shook her head. "Such sense is far from common.

Excuse me," Kira said. "I am perfectly capable of getting myself into a mess. Isn't that what the Senior Mechanics tried to say about my mother? That someone else was leading her astray? I'm in this mess because of my decisions.

There's always a choice," she said, opening her eyes again and meeting Flyn's with a somber gaze of her own. "You have to be willing to make it.

Because I'm not doing it so people will think I'm great. It needs to be done, I can do it, so I do, and I don't want people making a big deal out of it." Kira realized that her mouth was hanging open and closed it. "You sound like my mother. And my father. Which I never expected to say to you.

The answer? There is no answer. Only choices which can have many outcomes, some expected, and some unforeseen. Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter. As your choices matter, perhaps more than those of anyone else at this time.

The leaders have to be worthy, have to avoid the temptations of power, have to be honest even when the people don't want honesty.

How did you know if I could swim?" he demanded, shaking water from his face. "Shouldn't you have found out if I could swim before you threw me into a river?" "Yeah," Kira said. "I should have done that. Let's—" "You're insane! Rational people do not shove other people off of trains!

Her Aunt Alli seemed to be speaking to her, repeating a familiar lesson. Don't let having a gun make you confident, because confident people do stupid things, and if you need a gun you can't afford to be stupid. Thinking that it wouldn't be too hard to stay scared in this situation, Kira tried to smile at Jason. "This is important. We'll get it done.

courage needs to be paired with discipline, individual initiative with support to your comrades.

You Can't Hire Someone Else to Do Your Push-ups for You

If you are going to be a winner, you have to acknowledge the truth—it is you who took the actions, thought the thoughts, created the feelings, and made the choices that got you to where you now are. It was you!

blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

You — no one else!

Your future is created by what you do today, not tomorrow. Robert Kiyosaki

Do you want to speak to the man in charge—or the nurse who knows what's going on?

Often, we use words in a damaging way not because we are bad people but simply because we are not paying attention. No one ever taught us how powerful words really are.

As motivational philosopher Jim Rohn so aptly put it, "You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.

You will never become successful as long as you continue to blame someone or something else for your lack of success.

people only complain about things they can do something about.