Quotes About Responsibility

These are exceptional examples. On the whole it is better to explain to the people around you that you care about little details, but that it's their job to attend to them.

Tuve la suerte de que mi mujer y mis hijos no me hicieron sentir culpable por haber pasado tan poco tiempo con ellos y me permitieron ser egoísta.

por muy valioso que fuera, nadie está por encima de la ley.

The one thing I could never allow was loss of control, because control was my only saviour.

But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever

It is hard to know how to save the world if one has never lived in it.

You are right. I have no idea, and it is none of my business, and I was taught to obey my parents. But sometimes it is just impossible to obey blindly. Sometimes a child must strike out on her own. A child cannot be a child forever, whether that means not touching a spindle or . . . or . . .

It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions...it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

Your duty is to society, and the dead have always been a part of society. How we treat the dead says much about us.

I find that if you're a good student, the teacher hardly matters.

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.

It's your life. Only you can choose what you make with it, whether it's chicken salad or chicken shit.

I don't just deliver mail," she said enthusiastically and with a great deal of pride. "I see myself helping to connect people to other people. I am helping to build the community. Besides, people depend on me and I don't want to let them down.

Whenever possible, he fought against the idea of collective guilt, even though it was an unpopular stand immediately after the war.

When we complain, we hold whatever or whoever we're complaining about as a shield. We therefore perpetuate victimization and helplessness.

Man is not free from conditions. But he is free to take a stand in regard to them. The conditions do not completely condition him.

Frankl's key message that we always have the ability to respond to anything that comes our way in life by exercising our capacity to find meaning. Life doesn't just happen to us—we are responsible for our own lives, and it is up to us, like Frankl was able to do even in the Nazi death camps, to actively find meaning in our lives. We cannot be victims, we cannot be passive participants in life and, most of all, we cannot be prisoners of our thoughts!

Kids born today will see us navigate past the first greatest test of humanity, which is: can we actually be smart enough to live on a planet without destroying it?

Pour l'essentiel de sa courte vie, il avait œuvré à garder son indépendance. Une fois qu'un homme commençait à collectionner les obligations, tout se déréglait, et il se retrouvait face aux murs d'une prison construite de ses propres mains.

Chess for me is not a game, but an art. Yes, and I take upon myself all those responsibilities which an art imposes on its adherents.

The fact that a player is very short of time is, to my mind, as little to be considered an excuse as, for instance, the statement of the law-breaker that he was drunk at the time he committed the crime.

I needed to teach writing students to hold on—to themselves, to what matters to them, to the present, the past, the future. And to the country. And to do so with what they write. We won't know when the world will end. If it ever does, we will be better served when it does by having done the work we can do.

Speak to your dead. Write for your dead. Tell them a story. What are you doing with this life? Let them hold you accountable. Let them make you bolder or more modest or louder or more loving, whatever it is, but ask them in, listen, and then write. And when war comes -- and make no mistake, it is already here -- be sure you write for the living too. The ones you love, and the ones who are coming for your life. What will you give them when they get there?

I was now both the secret and the keeper of it, but the idea that I could not know what is was I served, nor why, nor who, became nearly unendurable all at once