Quotes About Responsibility

Los líderes aceptan la culpa; los perdedores se la pasan a otro.

God says there is a direct relationship between how I use my money and the quality of my spiritual life. How I manage my money ("worldly wealth") determines how much God can trust me with spiritual blessings ("true riches").

From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

We are Code Jiminy.

You want to feel sorry for him, but he was his own undoing.

Not all leaders are elected, Finn. Some just rise to the occasion.

Boldt glanced up to check the sharpshooter: The man had changed positions, and now hid behind the chimney where it would be easier to steady a rifle barrel. It occurred to Boldt that in the next few minutes they might kill a man—might get several more killed if they were not careful. For what? To appease the legal process?

It refuses to pursue business (even though there are big volumes to be had) that doesn't involve value-added for its clients in some meaningful way, rather than simply benefit from labor cost arbitrage.

As for loving woman, I have never understood why some people had a fit. I still don't. It seems fine to me. If an individual is productive responsible, and energetic, why should her choice in a partner make such a fuss? The government is only too happy to take my tax money and yet they uphold legislation that keeps me a second class citizen. Surely, there should be a tax break for those of us who are robbed of full and equal participation and protection in the life of our nation.

Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!

Freedom means the right to choose how you want to live and it means the right to participate in governmental and economic decisions. You're right, there is a confusion between political freedom and material benefits. But, to me, freedom means being able to shape your environment, working with others. We're all responsible to each other in my concept of freedom.

Corruption is like a lily—brush against it, however lightly, and some of the pollen smears on you. Therefore choose your friends and your employers wisely.

My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide whether to ruin our carpets or ruin our lives.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

the more risks you allow children to take, the better they learn to take care of themselves. If you never let them take any risks, then I believe they become very prone to injury. Boys should be allowed to climb tall trees and walk along the tops of high walls and dive into the sea from high rocks... The same with girls. I like the type of child who takes risks. Better by far than the one who never does so.

I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.

Is she the only one at fault? For though she's spoiled, and dreadfully so, A girl can't spoil herself, you know. Who spoiled her, then? Ah, who indeed? Who pandered to her every need? Who turned her into such a brat? Who are the culprits? Who did that? Alas! You needn't look so far To find out who these sinners are. They are (and this is very sad) Her loving parents, MUM and DAD. And that is why we're glad they fell Into the garbage chute as well.

Get up at once, you lazy little beast!

Personally, I mistrust all handsome men. The superficial pleasures of this life come too easily to them, and they seem to walk the world as though they themselves were personally responsible for their own good looks. I don't mind a woman being pretty. That's different. But in a man, I'm sorry, but somehow or other I find it downright offensive.

Occasionally one comes across parents who take the opposite line, who show no interest at all in their children, and these of course are far worse than the doting ones.

Mr. Bucket was the only person in the family with a job. He worked in a toothpaste factory, where he sat all day long at a bench and screwed the little caps onto the tops of the tubes of toothpaste after the tubes had been filled.

What if they come after us?' said Mr Bucket, speaking for the first time.

What's your name?' 'Pilot Officer Dahl, sir.' 'Very well, Dahl,' he said, weighing the package up and down in one hand. 'This is on no account to fall into enemy hands. Guard it with your life. Do I make myself clear?' 'Yes, sir,' I said, feeling important.

To support these ladies in the manner to which they are accustomed, the men must work like slaves, which is of course precisely what they are.