Quotes About Responsibility

Shit doesn't just happen in a void, there're ripples and consequences and even with all that there's still a whole fucking world going on, whether you're doing something or not.

Children cannot help how they are born, they had no choice in it. Choosing to be a fool, though . . .

You think this is about setting aright what is askew, disorder back into order. That is the shit men think, to make any wicked action right in their eyes.

He was spiraling downward and would have taken the village with him were it not for the other, who lead them instead to a light blacker than the thickest darkness.

To be a man you do as man do. Master one thing and you can fail at everything else, for to be a man is to fail at everything else. Here is the one thing. What men do in all things, more than anything, is take up space, whether he be priest, king, beggar, or hunter. Whether he be living or dead. More space than he need, and more space than he will use.

There is time to do everything God wants me to do. There's not time to do everything. There's not time to do everything good. There's not time to do everything everyone else wants me to do. There's not even time to do everything I want to do. But, because God is God, there must be time to do everything He wants me to do.

Our job is to be fruit holders--fruit bearers vs. fruit producers.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.

I am placing Mistress Chandler in your care. Lose her or take your eyes off her for one second and I'll peel the skin off your arse with my teeth.

And mind you keep a sharp eye on this child's back. If you let so much as a hair on her head fall into harm, I'll pluck you like a chicken and spit you stem to stern." "Don't worry, Old Witch. If anything happens to Blue Eyes, there will not be much left of me after McBride is finished.

How can I get up everyday knowing you had to kill yourself to make it stop hurting and I was here all the time and I never even saw it. And then you gave me this chance to make it better, convince you to stay alive and I couldn't do it. How can I live with myself after this, Jessie?

It was his idea to go horseback riding that day. It was his idea I could do anything if I just made up my mind to. I fell off the horse because I didn't know how to hold on. Cecil left for pretty much the same reason.

In no case should we abandon responsibility for our own choice-making or give someone else's conception of what we are more weight than our own sense of self.

Guilt feelings can cause people to experience severe depression after they have been successful in some work or personal project. Chronic bad luck accidents or impoverished social relations can stem from self-imposed guilt.

We deny responsibility for our actions when we attribute their cause to factors outside ourselves:

NVC heightens our awareness that what others say and do may be the stimulus, but never the cause, of our feelings. We see that our feelings result from how we choose to receive what others say and do, as well as from our particular needs and expectations in that moment. With this third component, we are led to accept responsibility for what we do to generate our own feelings.

The Austrian-born Israeli philosopher Martin Buber describes this quality of presence that life demands of us: "In spite of all similarities, every living situation has, like a newborn child, a new face, that has never been before and will never come again. It demands of you a reaction that cannot be prepared beforehand. It demands nothing of what is past. It demands presence, responsibility; it demands you.

Temos quatro opções quando escutamos uma mensagem difícil: 1. Culpar a nós mesmos; 2. Culpar os outros; 3. Perceber nossos próprios sentimentos e necessidades; 4. Perceber os sentimentos e necessidades dos outros.

A menos que "nos tornemos a mudança que desejamos ver acontecer no mundo" (como diria meu avô), nenhuma mudança jamais acontecerá. Infelizmente, estamos todos esperando que os outros mudem primeiro.

Somos peligrosos cuando no somos conscientes de nuestra responsabilidad hacia cómo nos comportamos, pensamos y sentimos.

O mundo em que vivemos é aquilo que fazemos dele. Se hoje é impiedoso, foi porque nossas atitudes o tornaram assim. Se mudarmos a nós mesmos, poderemos mudar o mundo, e essa mudança começará por nossa linguagem e nossos métodos de comunicação.

This is a humbling lesson in power for those of us who believe that, because we're a parent, teacher, or manager, our job is to change other people and make them behave.

the dangers of a language that implies absence of choice