Quotes About Responsibility

The matter is very simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But . . . we pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly. —SØREN KIERKEGAARD

His conscience never bothered him, because when he failed, he would go straight to the Lord, saying, This is what I'll always naturally do if I'm left on my own, Lord. If he didn't stumble, though, he would always give God the credit.

Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted, when we tolerate what we know to be wrong, when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy or too frightened, when we fail to speak up and speak out, we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Let no one be discouraged by the belief there is nothing one person can do against the enormous array of the world's ills, misery, ignorance, and violence. Few will have the greatness to bend history, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And in the total of all those acts will be written the history of a generation.

The responsibility of our time is nothing less than a revolution. A revolution that would be peaceful if we are wise enough; humane if we care enough; successful if we are fortunate enough. But a revolution will come whether we will it or not. We can affect it's character, we cannot alter it's inevitability.

Do what has to be done, regardless of the consequences.

Well-liked… a dangerous quality in a leader.

Freedom is a terrible burden, much too heavy for the weak man to bear.

A beast barely able to restrain itself carried a risk to its master.

Love your children while they are young. Because they grow up soon enough, and then… then the have no need of you.

A gift, to be a gift, has to be accepted. Otherwise it lies like a burden between people.

La mayoría de las personas no entiende el perdón. Siempre se piden perdón unas a otras, cuando lo que cada una de ellas necesita es perdonarse a sí misma por haber creado una situación en la que es necesario el perdón.

Un don para ser un don debe ser aceptado, de no ser así, es como una carga para las personas

There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it's egotism.

Nobody was ever meant to remember or invent what he did with every cent.

For I have promises to keep; and miles to go before I sleep.

I have wished a bird would fly away, And not sing by my house all day; Have clapped my hands at him from the door When it seemed as if I could bear no more. The fault must partly have been in me. The bird was not to blame for his keys. And of course there must be something wrong In waiting to silence any song.

A man must partly give up being a man With women-folk.

but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: 'Them that's going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain't, get out of the way'.