Quotes About Responsibility

My grandma, Mrs Grace Ayorkor Acquah said 'Educating the child is everybody's business.

You think you're a role model, and they (protégés)turn around and tell you you're a negative role model.

It is a shame that the very people who used education to clamber out of the disadvantages they had grown up in, have drawn up the ladder after them.

John Milton called his school Christ College 'a stony-hearted stepmother'. The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

Last words when sending our boy to college: "If there's anything you want call us and we'll show you how to live without it."

Bumper sticker: Driver carries no cash - he has a son in college.

"Do you think your boy will forget all he learned in college?" "I hope so. He can't make a living drinking."

Graduation Speech: You'll have to excuse me if I cry. I've been a little teary-eyed all week the sadness the joy . . . the fact that I'm off my parents' payroll.

What greater or better gift can we offer the republic than to teach and instruct our youth?

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny.

We eventually learn that emotional closure is our own action. We can be responsible for it. In any moment, we can choose to open or to close.

We are dangerous when we are not conscious of our responsibility for how we behave, think, and feel.

Everyone says buying your first apartment makes you feel like an adult. What no one mentions is that selling it turns you right back into a child.

Learning to "just say no" to emotional reactions isn't repression. Saying no means not engaging the frustration, anger, judgment, or blame. Without engagement, you won't have anything to repress.

My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

You know, comedy's hard. With drama, you have a responsibility to the emotional truth, but with comedy, you have emotional truth and you have technique on top of it.

If you're a manager you can't get frustrated and be emotional. You have to continue to steer the ship, you can't let go of the wheel because who knows where it will go then.

Attachment parenting demands not just certain actions you take with your baby but also certain emotional states to accompany those actions.

This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.

The idea of Cable as a man out to protect his daughter by any means necessary gives the character an emotional heft and underlines everything he does. It's richly fulfilling.

I would say that when I write prose I'm a more socially responsible person. I'm much more a citizen of the world. But the instability of the poetry, the emotional jaggedness, is also me.

Management must have a purpose, a dedication and that dedication must have an emotional commitment. It must be built in as a vital part of the personality of anyone who truly is a manager.

It's not the burden of your mate or anyone else to heal your emotional issues.

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family.