Quotes About Responsibility

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

All that a man achieves and all that he fails to achieve is the direct result of his own thoughts.

Every time you say yes to something you don't want to do, this will happen: you will resent people, you will do a bad job, you will have less energy for the things you were doing a good job on, you will make less money, and yet another small percentage of your life will be used up, burned up, a smoke signal to the future saying, "I did it again.

Nobody wakes up in the morning and says, 'I can't wait to clean out some shit today.

I'm a good self-starter when it comes to guilt.

To deny the freedom of the will is to make morality impossible.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given Freedom is something that people take and people are as free as they want to be.

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Libertà è accettare

Julian wore his favorite good-luck red-striped soccer jersey. He was planning to make money to build cement walls for his mother's house. He was recently married, and he and his wife were expecting a child that October. His father said Julian had promised to "always behave with respect," and that he would do nothing to cost his father his feelings of pride. He had a note from his bridge in his pocket.

Las instituciones de seguridad se han deteriorado por los efectos combinados del dinero de los traficantes, la ausencia de una ética de servicio a la ciudadanía y la irresponsabilidad política de partidos y gobernantes pasados y presentes.

The only reason to sign [petitions] is to assuage the conscience of the signatory.

When he saw the child of some prostitute throw stones at a crowd, Diogenes shouted to him, "Take care that you don't hit your father!

O homem não é o único animal que alimenta e cuida de suas crias. Mas é o único que depois usa isso para fazer chantagem emocional

conducir es liderar, no es dar órdenes.

La humanidad es pesada

If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine.

Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

We got married: society's solution to loneliness, lust and laundry.

Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.

Nobody can be forced to commit an act of villainy. You can't push anybody into the mud; people always step into it themselves.