Quotes About Responsibility

Decidieron que Grajales y Bolaños se dirigirían a Neiva y La Plata por la costa, mientras que el practicante Lozano acompañaría a Salvany rumbo a Cartago, Trujillo y la provincia de Chocó. Cada grupo llevaba seis niños, indígenas o mestizos cuya edad no superaba los diez años.

Uno nunca es responsable de la historia de su patria, pero por lo general resulta difícil hacérselo comprender a los extranjeros. Explícale a un mexicano, por ejemplo, que tú no tienes nada que ver con el fin del Imperio azteca y las matanzas de Cortés. Ni siquiera intelectuales de altura como Carlos Fuentes u Octavio Paz te habrían hecho caso.

Citizenship consists in the service of the country

The irony is that if you're like most people, you allow everything and everyone, except you, to determine what you are feeling. Said differently, you allow external influences to dictate your emotions.

The Law of Ignoring says that whatever you ignore will, most likely, get worse in time. If you want to live life on your terms and secure a job that provides the life you want, you have to make it happen.

In my humdrum life, the daily battle hasn't been good vs. evil. It's hardly so epic. Most days, my real battle is doing good vs. doing nothing. -Deirdre Sullivan

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

I tell my clients that the single most important word for them to remember while they are engaged in marketing is commitment. It means that they are taking the marketing job seriously. They're not playing around, not expecting miracles. They have scant funds to test their marketing—they must act. Without commitment, marketing becomes practically impotent.

On the whole, punishments that are productive (work details above and beyond ordinary chores) are the best punishments whenever they can be devised. Ordinary chores ought not to be used as punishments since parents should endeavor to get their children to enjoy helping out in the family.

He has given you a lot of rope. Don't forget that one end is tied around your neck.

This technique works for humans as well. If you have a kid who is reluctant to get dressed, give her a choice of clothing. That makes her feel powerful. Wrong: Would you please get dressed? Right: Which do you want to wear, the red shirt or the blue one?

And the very, very worst thing you can do to angry cats or people is tell them to calm down. Telling someone to calm down implies that his anger is his own fault. Anyone who's angry believes that someone else, not him, is to blame.

I wished I'd thought of that last before I'd departed. It might have been good advice to give out in my final days in Copper Downs, had I been able to fit such a conversation in between my busy schedule of murder, arson, and funerary rites.

Most people never choose anything. They are chosen for, or they follow what is left to them after their choices have been eaten away by time, by ill fortune, by their own actions or the deeds of others.

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

We put great expectations on our tomorrows when we truly need to rely on ourselves. Far too many overlook personal action, as a means to get things done. Blame is easily passed if one does not hold themselves accountable.

Every commander responsible for executing a plan that he considers bad or disastrous is criminal: he must point out the flaws, insist that it be changed, and at last resort resign rather than be the instrument of the destruction of his own men. Every

I've always felt that photographers who say, "They used the wrong picture," have only themselves to blame. They gave them the "wrong" picture. I didn't worry because I only gave them pictures that worked. It's my obligation to take out all the "wrong" pictures.

A terrible and hidden reality of both America's and Israel's wars is that hundreds of soldiers have fallen, killed by terrorists, because they were being cautious with civilian lives

On the matter of slavery, he reproached but absolved the South of the ultimate blame: "It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be judged.

It must be wonderful to be you, Dominic, and know that you alone have shaped yourself. It must be even more wonderful for other people, your mother and even God Himself for all I know, to know that. It absolves them of a terrible responsibility.

I'm a Guild Boss, remember? I have no sense of humor.

Who the hell do you think you are, Jones? The man they sent to take care of the monsters on Rainshadow, Cyrus said.

One can be a patriot, you know, without making one's wife join the breadline.