Quotes about responsibility
responsibility pride grandchildren
Because (grandparents) are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations. Jimmy Carter
responsibility artist may
The responsibility of the artist consists in perfecting his work so that it may become attractively disinteresting. John Cage
responsibility important ability
Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess. John C. Maxwell
responsibility numbers discipline
All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others.
responsibility easy persons
A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.
responsibility leader burden
Leadership involves the heavy burden of responsibility, and the fear of getting it wrong can paralyze a leader.
responsibility mature indication
A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.
responsibility leader realizing
Realizing your potential as a leader is your responsibility.
responsibility two hands
A burden in the bush is worth two on your hands. James Thurber
responsibility thinking government
Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government. James Surowiecki
responsibility world-love life-and-death
Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain. It's yours. It's all yours for taking! You're not going to waste it now, are you? James Patterson
responsibility men price-tag
There is a price tag on human liberty. That price is the willingness to assume the responsibilities of being free men. Payment of this price is a personal matter with each of us. James Monroe
responsibility thinking animal
Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals. Ellen DeGeneres
responsibility gun want
When I hear the words social responsibility, I want to reach for my gun. Eric S. Raymond
responsibility educate
The word responsibility is right, and doing everything you can to educate yourself and learn and be aware. Ellen Page
responsibility social obligation
Regardless, for me, I feel a personal obligation and a social responsibility.
responsibility thinking leader
Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader. Hermann Hesse
responsibility men guilt
...every man shares the responsibility and the guilt of the society to which he belongs. Henrik Ibsen
responsibility violence firsts
Our first responsibility in the midst of violence is to prevent it from destroying us. Henri Nouwen
responsibility mind body
Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us. Heidi Julavits
responsibility fate decision
Only the closest collaborators of the Fuehrer know how difficult is the burden of this responsibility; how sorrowful are the hours during which decisions must be made which bear upon the well being and the fate of all of Germany Hjalmar Schacht
responsibility risk roles
My preference is for the Federal Reserve to be the systemic risk regulator, because the responsibility for identifying and limiting potential problems is a natural complement to its role in monetary policy. Henry Paulson
responsibility writing people
I always feel a responsibility to the people I write about. I feel obligated to portray them in the way they feel is proper. Heather Graham Pozzessere
responsibility leaving climate-change
This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper. Hilary Benn
responsibility august law
He is careful to deny responsibility for September, but he does not, you notice, condemn the killings. He also refrains from killing words, sparing Roland and Buzot, as if they were beneath his notice. August 10 was illegal, he says; so too was the taking of the Bastille. What account can we take of that, in revolution? It is the nature of revolutions to break laws. We are not justices of the peace; we are legislators to a new world. Hilary Mantel
responsibility men insecurity
In the form of security and sufficiency for the men who labor to the profit of others, and in the form of registering and controlling them in the form of an organized public supervision of their labor, slavery is already afoot. When slavery shall succeed it will succeed through the acquiescence of those who will be enslaved, for they will prefer sufficiency and security with enslavement, to freedom, responsibility, insecurity and the threat of insufficiency. Hilaire Belloc
responsibility men debt
Nature holds an immense uncollected debt over every man's head. Henry Ward Beecher
responsibility fate fighting
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe. Henry James
responsibility discovery luxury
The advantage, the luxury, as well as the torment and responsibility of the novelist, is that there is no limit to what he may attempt as an executant - no limit to his possible experiments, efforts, discoveries, successes.
responsibility freedom-and-responsibility
Love can only exist where freedom and responsibility are operating. Henry Cloud
responsibility two people
When we ask we are owning our needs. Asking for love, comfort or understanding is a transaction between two people. You are saying: I have a need. It's not your problem. It's not your responsibility. You don't have to respond, but I'd like something from you. This frees the other person to connect with you freely and without obligation. When we own that our needs are our responsibility we allow others to love us because we have something to offer. Asking is a far cry from demanding. When we demand love, we destroy it.
responsibility years careers
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions of significant responsibility but without complete authority over everyone that needed to be mobilized. Kevin Allen
responsibility issues president
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks? Jonathan Raban