Quotes About Responsibility

And think before you act because you'll have to take responsibility for your actions.

Even though they're adults, they're still my babes, and I still worry and fret over all of them.

Dallas tapped her fingers on the side of her glass. How was she going to explain this latest development to Cody? What was she supposed to say? "Daddy needed to go away so he could learn to keep it in his pants"?

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.

Had-I and But-Known looked back at her with identical icy stares of umbrage and reproof. She belonged to them. How dare she make such a fuss of Roscoe? He owned a perfectly good … well, adequate … um … anyway … Macho belonged to him. And if he hadn't trained Macho correctly, it was his fault

Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.

If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

If we think we have ours and don't owe any time or money or effort to help those left behind, then we are a part of the problem rather than the solution to the fraying social fabric that threatens all Americans.

A nation that does not stand for its children does not stand for anything and will not stand tall in the future.

For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.

Life provides me both the right and the responsibility of continuously adapting my way of thinking.

Two paths lie ahead of today's CIOs. One leads to becoming a trusted senior executive leader of the enterprise; the other leads to a technical management, "just keep the lights on and do it cheap" role.

I inwardly did nothing.O Iscariot-like crime!

Blessed the geniuses who know that egomania is not a duty.

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.

no somos átomos aislados en este mundo, y nuestra conducta influye necesariamente en las vidas de muchas otras personas, a las que estamos ligados por lazos de sangre o de amistad.

Hay que respetar las legítimas ansias de verdad: el hombre tiene obligación grave de buscar al Señor, de conocerle y de adorarle, pero nadie en la tierra debe permitirse imponer al prójimo la práctica de una fe de la que carece; lo mismo que nadie puede arrogarse el derecho de hacer daño al que la ha recibido de Dios»

Like physicians we have a duty to 'do no harm' (..). I argue that we can only do this through recognition of our own weaknesses and a willingness to understand how we might be tempted into positions of false omnipotence, moral superiority and boundary violations. (..) Like Guggenbuhl-Craig, I believe there is a 'bogeyman' within every therapist, longing for control (1971, p. 55).

Jeg følte mig (og føler mig stadig) ansvarlig for at have sat dem i verden, men jeg var ved at lære, at jeg under ingen omstændigheder skulle føle mig ansvarlig for deres individualitet. De var ikke mig og jeg var ikke dem. Jeg skulle lære dem at kende, ligesom de skulle lære mig at kende.

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end,each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a genaral responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think can be most useful.