Quotes About Responsibility

Fluir significa aceptar que nadie más que uno mismo es el responsable de lo que nos pasa, aceptar que lo que acontece es siempre un reflejo de nosotros mismos y una oportunidad para crecer. Crecer significa acercarse a lo que verdaderamente somos y esto es la totalidad en la que todo lo que sucede acontece dentro. En esta condición no existe lo externo sino solamente uno mismo.

We live in a world of guided missiles and misguided men.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

El motivo de que estés atrapado es lo que llamamos «la importancia personal». La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor. Durante el periodo de nuestra educación (o de nuestra domesticación), aprendimos a tomarnos todas las cosas de forma personal. Creemos que somos responsables de todo. ¡Yo, yo, yo y siempre yo!

You can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

One Master and one apprentice; one to embody the power, the other to crave it

Set wasn't interested in ruling the galaxy. Or destroying the Jedi. It sounded like a lot of work.

the larger the staff, the more important it becomes to make sure responsibility is owned by individuals and not by the group.

Just as "good fences make good neighbors," clear delineations of responsibility can prevent the kind of turf battles that break down staff relationships.

We, the Church, hold the keys. We are His body—His hands, feet, voice—and what He does, He will do through us. We are Plan A, and there is no Plan B.

The devil is after our "gardens," too—our families, homes, marriages, churches, cities, etc. Our responsibility as watchmen is to keep the devil out

The first responsibility of watchmen is to keep the serpent out of their God-given gardens.

Only Americans can hurt America.

Neither a wise nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.

Freedom has been defined as the opportunity for self-discipline.

The time has passed for dilly-dallying. We must demand satisfactory performance.

If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed — those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone — it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

True delegation implies the courage and readiness to back up a subordinate to the full; it is not to be confused with the slovenly practice of merely ignoring an unpleasant situation in the hope that someone else will handle it.

It seemed to me that constant stressing of the individual rights and privileges of American citizenship had overshadowed the equally important truth that such individualism can be sustained only so long as the citizen accepts his full responsibility for the welfare of the nation that protects him in the exercise of these rights.

shot through the heart, and you're to blame! you give love, a bad name.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or timid.