Quotes About Responsibility

Now parents will say, "We're just trying to make ends meet," and they're telling the truth. But if you think too much about the pursuit of material things, you're going to hurt those youngsters you're working so hard to buy material things for.

If we are not true to ourselves, we cannot be true to others—our wife or husband, our family, our profession and colleagues

there is one similarity between a prison guard and a leader: Both have the final word. When a decision is made, it must be accepted by those on your team, or they must be encouraged to find another team.

You and I must accept some accountability for future bloodshed if each and every day we don't do something in our own way to alleviate prejudice in ourselves or others.

There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.

Why can't we realize that it only weakens those we want to help when we do things for them that they should do for themselves?

I think parenting and coaching or teaching are the same thing. And they are the two most important professions in the world.

There is a choice you have to make, in everything you do. And you must always keep in mind the choice you make, makes you.

Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live

As a matter of fact, Ona spent more credits on the window shades alone than you will make in your entire lifetime and that's if you live to be 185." "And that's meant to make me feel better?" I said. "No, that is meant to inform you. I am your computer not your nanny.

Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

That he would pause In his killing To go about the business Of preparing for the living Knowing That he will immediately return To the business of killing?

You owe some things to the dead even if they're not your own dead. I guess in some way they're all your own.

Maybe a little," says Jacob. "You see, it's not my wife who needs a favor. It's my son." "First your wife, and now your son? It's as I always say. There is no host in the

One can't quit working to better the world just because the world is old and set in its ways. The enormity of a job is no reason not to do the job.

Guess what? When it comes right down to it, wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, how are you going to handle it? In other words, "Now what?

We take care of the future best by taking care of the present now.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are. Things get simpler. In some ways, it's as if you died and the world continued on. If you did die, all your responsibilities and obligations would immediately evaporate. Their residue would somehow get worked out without you.

The only way we have of influencing the future is to own the present, however we find it.

One small shift in the way we each conduct ourselves, and the crystal lattice structure of the world is already different. In this way, we are the world, and when we take responsibility for our small but not insignificant part of it, the whole is already different—the flowering we manifest emotionally and in every other way of some importance, potentially enormous.

If we are unaware of what we are doing a good deal of the time, and we don't particularly like the way things turn out in our lives, perhaps it's time to pay closer attention, to be more in touch, to observe the choices we make and their consequences down the road.

If I can't do anything useful, at least I would like to do as little harm as possible.

Parenting and family life can be a perfect field for mindfulness practice, but it's not for the weak-hearted, the selfish or lazy, or the hopelessly romantic. Parenting is a mirror that forces you to look at yourself. If you can learn from what you observe, you just may have a chance to keep growing yourself.

Ultimately, it is our mindlessness that imprisons us. We get better and better at being out of touch with the full range of our possibilities, and more and more stuck in our cultivated-over-a-lifetime habits of not-seeing, but only reacting and blaming.