Quotes About Responsibility

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.

When leaders take back power, when they act as heroes and saviors, they end up exhausted, overwhelmed, and deeply stressed.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Wherever you're working is where you take a stand. You don't have to go looking for new places, other issues, compelling causes.

He was a mean man, it's true, but he got ahead. A man gets on by working harder than the rest—that's what he used to say—and if he doesn't get anywhere, he hasn't a soul to blame but himself.

Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.

Archetypal psychology helps us understand the intrinsic meaning of product categories and consequently helps marketers create enduring brand identities that establish market dominance, evoke and deliver meaning to customers, and inspire customer loyalty—all, potentially, in socially responsible ways.

You don't adopt a single child, you adopt the pain of the world. It's a litmus test of your incapacity.

Look at me. You are the first person to ask about him. Do you understand? No one has ever asked about this man, your relative, Richard. No one has called him down. No one ever printed out his name. You are responsible now. You must remember him in order to honor him.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequences of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

The United States has the power to destroy the world, but not the power to save it alone.

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.

The notion that we are products of our environment is our greatest sin; we are products of our choices." Margaret Mead (this may not be her exact wording, but it's close enough).

One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal an get away with it.

One of the most dangerous things that can happen to a child is to kill or torture an animal and not be held responsible. [Cultural Factors in the Cause of Pathological Homicide. Bulletin of Menninger Clinic ]

Burdens are for shoulders strong enough to carry them.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.

He looked at the piles of food again, and it was like he was seeing it with new eyes. "This is wrong", he thought, "Letting food rot while people die of hunger. It's evil.".... He breathed in the too-sweet smell of rotting food, "I can stop this evil.