Quotes About Responsibility

I felt caught in a dilemma that was new to me then but which since has become horribly familiar: the trap of adult life, in which you are held, wriggling, powerless to act because you can see both sides. On that occasion, as generally in the future, I compromised.

If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves and allow those responsible to salve their conscience by believing that they have our acceptance and concurrence. We should, therefore, protest openly everything… that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Oh no-"she began.It shocked her to be right. Parent's were right, not children. Children could say anything, Arriety knew and enjoy saying it- knowing always they were safe and wrong.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt.

Thus, fixed-price contracts tend to select the vendor most likely to get in trouble.

Schedule irreversible decisions for the last responsible moment, that is, the last chance to make the decision before it is too late.

Marriage, however, is not for the consumer; marriage is for the committed.

The lovers of the innocent must protect them above all from the knowledge of their own cruelty.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

The man who sleeps on a warning does not deserve one. What wait till tomorrow? I will go today?

Your people! Six boys and seven girls! You who are worthy to rule a kingdom." "Not unless I am worthy to rule them. Few or many, it's all one, once one has put oneself in the god's hand.

Metà dei guai del mondo sono causati da uomini non allenati a risentirsi per una affermazione fallace come per un insulto.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

It's not what one is, it's what one does with it.

I think, on the whole, that those French lady writers1 who desire to enjoy the privileges of man, with the irresponsibility of the other sex, would have been delighted with the disciples who were carrying their principles into practice in the streets of Cruces.

Listen to me, Frankenstein. You accuse me of murder; and yet you would, with a satisfied conscience, destroy your own creature. Oh, praise the eternal justice of man!

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not.

Our children are not going to be just our children-they are going to be other people's husbands and wives and the parents of our grandchildren.

Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.

Never load yourselves so, my friends. If you find yourselves so loaded, at least remember this: it is your own doing, not God's. He begs you to leave the future to Him, and mind the present. G. MACDONALD.

Women's courage is rather different from men's. The fact that women have to bring up children and look after husbands makes them braver at facing long-term issues, such as illness. Men are more immediately courageous. Lots of people are brave in battle.

Whether any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your power to determine. Whether each day of your life shall give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. GEORGE S. MERRIAM.