Quotes About Responsibility

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility.

Human beings who blind themselves to human need make themselves less human.

Christians have no business thinking that the good life consists mainly in not doing bad things. We have no business thinking that to do evil in this world you have to be a Bengal tiger, when, in fact, it is enough to be a tame tabby—a nice person but not a good one. In short, Pentecost makes it clear that nothing is so fatal to Christianity as indifference.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

Each layman must be his own apologist, responsible for his stewardship of the Gospel in his daily life and work.

He looked for a job, and the job that he found was that of an orderly in a hospital, on the night shift, where his work was emptying bed pans, wrapping up dead bodies, and doing all the other things which orderlies have to do. You never met a more emancipated man.

No white man is innocent. I am not innocent.

He was asking for it, and he basically made me do it, and I just weren't powerful enough to hold back the surge that took me over. Blaming me is like blaming the sky for raining.

Aquele que só for atraído pelas honrarias e pela ambição do mando, sem esperança de produzir trabalho útil, é indigno da posição que disputa e incapaz de exercer o poder.

In our Country... one class of men makes war and leaves another to fight it out.

If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve.

War is too serious a matter to leave to soldiers.

I know I had no hand in making this war, and I know I will make more sacrifices today than any of you to secure peace.

I will not accept if nominated and will not serve if elected.

I hereby state, and mean all that I say, that I never have been and never will be a candidate for President; that if nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline; and even if unanimously elected I should decline to serve.

Somehow, our men had got the idea that South Carolina was the cause of all our troubles; her people were the first to fire on Fort Sumter, had been in a great hurry to precipitate the country into civil war, and therefore on them should fall the scourge of war in its worst form.

Taking responsibility for your life means owning your failures and faults as well as your successes and strengths.

O ye who lead,Take heed!Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.

What it was was an irresponsible act by an asshole with a gun. And it wasn't the fault of the gun; someone has to be behind the trigger.

One of the crucial traits of real leaders in a democracy is the ability to help people become better informed so that society can make better choices.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

But, sad to say, Jefferson is not the only American statesman who has spoken high-sounding words in favour of freedom, and then left his own children to die slaves.

Trzeba si? pilnowa?, bo inaczej ani si? cz?owiek obejrzy, a ju? zaczyna ka?dego ?a?owa? i w ko?cu nie ma komu w mord? da?

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know.