Quotes About Responsibility

WHOSE hour, you should rather say,' replied the Badger. 'Why, Toad's hour! The hour of Toad! I said I would take him in hand as soon as the winter was well over, and I'm going to take him in hand to-day!

You're always busy, and you never do anything in particular; and when you've done it there's always something else to do, and you can do it if you like, but you much better not.

For instance, when I flung the cat out of an upper window (though I did it from no ill-feeling, and it didn't hurt the cat), I was ready, after a moment's reflection, to own I was wrong, as a gentleman should. But was the matter allowed to end there? I trow not.

My special job is the most interesting I know of anywhere. More fun than being king, pope, or prime minister anywhere-for no one can turn me out of it and I don't have to make any compromises with principles, Morgan once said. His principles-Do your work; be honest; keep your word; help when you can; be fair-were the words he lived by.

It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going.

Kenneth Minogue

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. PORTIA, IN The Merchant of Venice, I

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer (386).

One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murder.

I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Wash your dirty dishes like you are washing the infant Jesus.

As long as mortals choose to do evil, then evil will triumph. And Lucifer will laugh when people blame it on the Heavenly Father. But even with all the suffering in the world, the Heavenly Father will not take away your free will. He wants you to choose good or evil. He will not force us to choose good

Assignments without deadlines are far better at producing guilt than stimulating action.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. —MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror. There

In the worst companies, poor performers are first ignored and then transferred. In good companies, bosses eventually deal with problems. In the best companies, everyone holds everyone else accountable—regardless of level or position. The path to high productivity passes not through a static system, but through face-to-face conversations.

She felt for a moment the child's guilt and panic that she was to blame for something-for finally getting to know him. She that it wasn't the getting to know him part that would convict her in the end. It was the finally.

It was interesting, how much of adult life consisted of pretending.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you're not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones. Even if you are struck by lighting and injured, you made choices that led you to that spot at a particular time - and you get to choose how you feel about it afterward.

The trouble is so many people run around avoiding things their entire lives. It's just too uncomfortable for them to look in the mirror at the roughest and darkest parts of themselves. Or they're terrified of spending five seconds looking bad and saying, "You know what, I fucked up. This is on me. I didn't do this or think about that, and so this happened. But here's what I'm going to do to help, and here's what I'm going to do next time.

Until you stop wishing things were different, accept the way they are, and take up the sole responsibility of doing something about it, nothing will change.

While death isn't a sure thing anymore, taxes still are.

Cayce told one individual, "Know that thoughts are things, and as their currents run they may become crimes or miracles." (2419-1)

We touch people with our minds, with our words, and with our bodies. I have always sensed that we are at all times healers or destroyers. There is no middle ground. (A.R.E.