Quotes About Responsibility

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

Given a few days to contemplate it, the firing on Fort Sumter had cut through what had been a tangle of painful questions and a thicket obscuring who bore responsibility for thrusting them on the country.

This book is dedicated to my wife and daughters, for whom I would willingly buckle a knapsack to my back and march anywhere.

the great responsibility of the women of a Republic." They would not seek to "transcend their heaven-appointed limits, and come forward to mingle in public affairs, which could only restrict their influence—but they should never forget that they are, and are to become, the mothers and educators of our rulers and statesmen

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

Por último, medita mucho sobre la severidad y lo repentino de ese día del juicio, a través del cual tú y yo debemos pasar al estado eterno; en donde Dios, el juez imparcial, requerirá cuenta de todo lo que hicimos con nuestros talentos y aquello que nos fue encargado.

Power means never having to say you're sorry.

The captain of a ship can run a great ship, but he can't do anything about the tides.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything?

This was not uncommon in government-run operations, where a request that someone do their job often induced a catatonic state that might last anywhere from a couple of minutes to an hour.

You need to make time for your family no matter what happens in your life

When the President asks you to do something, you'd be surprised how keen you are to oblige," Syme said.

you have the right to feel however you like, but not the right to act however you want.

The only thing worse than cruelty is delegated cruelty.

Where we find wrongs done to animals, it is no excuse to say that more important wrongs are done to human beings, and let us concentrate on those. A wrong is a wrong, and often the little ones, when they are shrugged off as nothing, spread and do the gravest harm to ourselves and others.

Couldn't everyone see that the point of merit is to hold power accountable, not to supply yet another excuse for unaccountable power?

The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. —GANDHI T

The great master Padmasambhava said, Even if my view is higher than the sky, The attention I pay to my actions and their effects is finer than flour.

223 Your wives are your fields. Go, then, into your fields as you will. Send ahead [some good] for yourselves, and fear God, and know that you shall meet Him.' Give good tidings to the believers.

On the Day of Judgment, no step shall a man stir until he has answered questions on five aspects of his wordly existence: his life and how he spent it; his knowledge and what use he has made of it; his wealth, how he acquired it and how he has spent it; and his body and how he has utilized it. HADITH OF AT-TIRMIDHI ON THE AUTHORITY OF ABU HURAYRAH.

Why does no one tell you that work, not love, is the real salvation? Because if we told young people how life really was, they would beat us with their fists and ask why we brought them into this world. [Édouard Manet]

Jennings is too tough and honest a writer to let anyone off her moral hook, even her hero.

Society places enormous responsibility at the feet of mom without giving her the financial support, prestige, and acclaim due to a job of such momentous import for the entire culture.