Quotes About Responsibility

A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do.

Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle: we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.

If you are not consciously directing your life, you will lose your footing and circumstances will decide for you.

Life itself is a privilege, but to live life to the fullest- well, that is a choice.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.

we are the ones we have been waiting for

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

Life give to you what you gave to it. So give your best.

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

I think now, so late, too late, of the neighbor's lawn service, using leaf blowers to release herbicide all over their lovely roses. How all of that invisible death didn't disappear into the air. How it coated us, all of us, and that holding pond. How it masked us from ourselves. How it shone through us and we didn't even know it.

On Climate Change:) We know not only what we need to do, we have the capacity to do it. It is simply that we are not doing it. So that's one hope.

I felt like a child. I was a child. I could blow things up but I couldn't put things back together.

Jedynym rozwiÄ…zaniem dla Å›rodowiska naturalnego jest zaniedbanie, które wymaga naszego upadku.

Both the Star Wars and Friday the Thirteenth franchises have much to answer for.

Many of our clients engaged in "greenwashing": co-opting environmental causes to project an image of being sustainable.

Much of our success was due to the much-abused institution of African servitude, for it enabled the white men to go into the army, and leave the cultivation of their fields and the care of their flocks, as well as of their wives and children, to those who, in the language of the Constitution, were "held to service or labor.

People with children and people with their own business always pick up a ringing phone.

In the absence of certainty about what is best, in the presence of someone who is needy and vulnerable, there is a compelling urge for us to do something.

If you have to pay a bill, always make it look as if the amount is of no consequence.