Quotes About Responsibility

Then do this. The knowledge won't harm you if you decide not to use it. You need to do this. You've taken refuge too long in doing nothing at all.

Secretaries of Astronautics don't have to know much about science. They have to know about politics.

Or maybe she just went crazy because her God was demanding too much of her. She was no Job. In real life, how many people are?

The kids seem all right, but the adults. ... I wouldn't want to have to depend on them. Not even for little things.

How in the world can anyone get married and make babies with things the way they are now?

If you knew a man was out of his mind, you restrained him. You didn't give him power.

It was ... more poison packed tight together in one place than I've ever known. Did Humans make it that way on purpose?

A biological conscience is better than no conscience at all.

There is no end To what a living world Will demand of you.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

The only certain means is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

Never neglect the little things. Never skimp on that extra effort, that additional few minutes, that soft word of praise or thanks, that delivery of the very best that you can do. It does not matter what others think, it is of prime importance, however, what you think about you. You can never do your best, which should always be your trademark, if you are cutting corners and shirking responsibilities. You are special. Act it. Never neglect the little things.

Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave When they think that their children are nave.

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

Which the Chicken and Which the Egg? He drinks because she scolds, he thinks; She thinks she scolds because he drinks; And nether will admit what's true, That he's a sot and she's a shrew.

I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seagulls I leave no tern unstoned.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, And that's what parents were created for.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

This is the dark side of the "American dream." We blame the poor, accusing them of being poor because they do not work hard enough. Yet for the most part, the poor have less because the rich have taken more.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

The amount of work that needs to be undertaken is great, and we bear an enormous responsibility. The future of the world depends on this. We cannot wait for others to act. Who is the hero who can save the world? It is you. It is everyone of us. If you accept this challenge, that would be truly heroic. You would be an altruistic hero. – 17th Karmapa