Quotes About Responsibility

Lord Rand, Nynaeve snorted. That young man is growing too big for his breeches. When I get my hand on him, I'll lord him.

When you have a wolf by the ears, it's as hard to let go as to hold on.

Being in charge isn't always about telling people what to do. Sometimes, it's about knowing when to step out of the way of people who know what they're doing.

He isn't a horse, Elayne. You don't own him.

When an officer runs by with a look like that on his face, you don't ask if he needs help. You just follow!

He hadn't asked to become a leader, but did that absolve him of responsibility? People needed him. The world needed him. And, with an understanding that cooled in him like molten rock forming into a shape, he realized that he wanted to lead. If someone had to be lord of these people, he wanted to do it himself. Because doing it yourself was the only way to see that it was done right.

Usually when a woman was in the wrong, she could find so many things to blame on the nearest man that he wound up thinking maybe he really was at fault.

When we Shienarans ride, every man knows who is next in line if the man in command falls. A chain unbroken right down to the last man left, even if he's nothing but a horseholder. That way, you see, even if he is the last man, he is not just a straggler running and trying to stay alive. He has the command,and duty calls him to do what must be done. If I go to the last embrace of the mother, the duty is yours. You will find the Horn, and you will take it where it belongs. You will.

If you boys... you men can do what has to be done when you'd rather do almost anything else, why do you think I will do less? Or Egwene

An honorable man protects whoever needs protecting, but children above all, and women above men.

Once he had a grove of oaks chopped down because they were looking at him. And then insisted that they would be given decent funerals; he gave the orations. Do you have any idea how longs it takes to dig graves for twenty-three oak trees?

You are a fine judge of character, child. You must have done well as the Wisdom of your village. It was Laras who went to Sheriam and demanded to know how long you three are to be kept to the dirtiest and hardest work, without a turn at lighter. She said she would not be a party to breaking any woman's health or spirit, no matter what I said. A fine judge of character, child.

how could you possibly look ten women in the face and ask why they had gotten you drunk and made a game of taking your clothes off and putting you to bed?

It's one of the things men are for, taking the blame. They usually deserve it, even if you don't know exactly how.

That was the trouble with the best of men. They always thought they were doing the right thing.

The Creator had made the world and then left humankind to make of it what they would, a heaven or the Pit of Doom by their choosing. The Creator had made many worlds, watched each flower or die, and gone on to make endless worlds beyond. A gardener did not weep for each blossom that fell.

The mighty tell the lesser to dig in the mud and keep their own hands clean.

Death is lighter than a feather, duty heavier than a mountain.

Who would rule a nation when he could have easier work, such as carrying water uphill in a sieve?

Afterwards, we will do as we must. As we do now.

As far as he was concerned, a man who decided to rob and kill deserved what he got when he lost the game. He did not dwell on them, but neither did he jerk his eyes away if they fell on one of the robbers.

The worst sin a general can commit, worse than blundering, worse than losing, worse than anything, is to desert the men who depend on him.

A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.

Do what you must, then pay the price for it, was what she had been taught, by the same women who had marked off those forbidden areas. It was refusal to admit the debt, refusal to pay, that often turned necessity to evil.