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Quotes About Responsibility

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state— I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public—people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
~ Napoleon Hill
The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
~ Unknown
We, the women, who rule the house But ours is not to question why… Ours is but to do and die and Husband never to defy.
~ Unknown
We, the women, who rule thatif you make a scholar out of your wife, you will need another wife to do the daily chores.
~ Unknown
La felicità, – lui disse, – sembra sempre niente, è come l'acqua, e si capisce solo quando è perduta. – È vero, – lei disse. E pensò un poco, e disse: – E anche il male che noi facciamo, è così, sembra niente, sembra una sciocchezza, acqua fresca, mentre lo facciamo. Se no allora la gente non lo farebbe, starebbe più attenta.
~ Natalia Ginzburg
The way I see it," Miles went on, "it's no good hiding yourself away, like Pa and lots of other people. And it's no good just thinking of your own pleasure, either. People got to do something useful if they're going to take up space in the world.
~ Natalie Babbitt
Sometimes people say to me, "I want to write, but I have five kids, a full-time job, a wife who beats me, a tremendous debt to my parents," and so on. I say to them, "There is no excuse. If you want to write, write. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait. Make the time now, even if it is ten minutes once a week.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Understanding engenders care.
~ Natalie Goldberg
There is no excuse. If you want to write, write.This is your life, you are responsible for it.You will not live forever.Don't wait. Make the time now.
~ Natalie Goldberg
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
~ Natalie Goldberg
This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.
~ Natalie Goldberg
In Yellowstone National Park there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
~ Natalie Jeremijenko
Desperate, Tillman confessed to charges of murder and rape for which he wasn't responsible - a few weeks later, the CPD caught the real killer - but Burge still turned Tillman's false confession over to Daley's prosecutors, and Tillman was convicted.
~ Unknown
Nuoriso on lystikästä, kaikki haluavat työskennellä avaruuden parissa, mutta kuka sitten hoitaa maanpäällisen elämämme?
~ Unknown
Money, like emotions, is something you must control to keep your life on the right track.
~ Unknown
hesitant to delegate responsibility, he ordained dozens of them to the ministry and sent them out to plant and pastor churches. Within ten years he was commanding a formidable army of active church workers, and some people were jokingly referring to him as "the Pope of the North Country.
~ Unknown
It is hard to know what a person would and wouldn't do in any specific instance. And you, spoiled child, apply the rules of civilization to a boy who had only seen its opposite. Maybe the fault for those deaths lies in a system designed for the killing of Tendlers that failed to do its job. An error, a slip that allowed a Tendler, no longer fit, back loose in the world.
~ Nathan Englander
?ovjekovo pravo bi?e pokazuje se u tri slu?aja. Kad je posrijedi novac, kad govori u srdžbi i kad je pijan.
~ Nathan Englander