I don’t think Will Herondale and a sense of responsibility are even on speaking terms

Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn’t melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.

There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within–not without. It is each man’s own affair.

If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.

Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children’s diet, and the government’s role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

The white man will never be alone. Let him be just, and deal kindly with my people. For the dead are not powerless.

I don’t have a ‘side’—I’m responsible for what I say and nothing else.

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.

There are only two things that determine whether you’re old enough to do something — whether you understand what the hell you’re getting yourself into — and whether you’re willing to accept responsibility for it...

Ultimately, the responsibility rests with the drivers, and they seemed to respond to the message we were putting out.

It’s like a shifting of loan repayment responsibility, collateralized by Midway shares.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.

People like to say love is unconditional, but it’s not, and even if it was unconditional, it’s still never free. There’s always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you...

To some women, a job plays the role of a man. To most women, a man plays the role of a job.

I never really grew up until I had kids.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

When you grow and rise above the masses, you will always become a target. Just as the flower grows above the grass, it becomes a target for the nourishment of the rays of sunshine, it...

I truly wanted to live a life in which I could make my own choices, independent of the ‘duties’ of my birth and position. It was only when fate granted that to me that I...

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.

Humility is the only thing that can restore a relationship, when respect has been lost.

It is the fate of great achievements, born from a way of life that sets truth before security, to be gobbled up by you and excreted in the form of shit. For centuries great, brave,...

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

When children are taught to be “good” and keep everyone happy, it teaches them that they have the impossible burden of being responsible for other people’s happiness.

If a player won’t shoulder responsibility, he won’t work on his weaknesses, which means he won’t improve. He’ll be constantly on the prowl for a fall guy or a scapegoat, and his teammates becomes epidemic.

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of that truth when found. If you know more than other people, you have...

The use of fake data … is what I have to take full responsibility for as first author. I acknowledge all of that and apologize once again.

Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with...

Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as...

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others’ responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort...

We want to support every player, and I think every player knows he has a responsibility for what to do and what not to do. As a coach, I also feel a responsibility to put...

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I’m sure it will be my own fault if I don’t. I feel it’s a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don’t grow up...

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau’s social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a “partnership” between the present generation and future generations.

There is no fault, only responsibility.

Don’t make excuses; accept responsibility. You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

By exiling human judgment in the last few decades, modern law changed role from useful tool to brainless tyrant. This legal regime will never be up to the job, any more than the Soviet system...

Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate those subtle nuances of character you’ve acquired by overcoming your deepest fears? Who can...

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less significant – for an organism without cells is no organism at all. We define it; we make...

Corporate social responsibility is not a fad. In fact, there are structural reasons why this is happening and happening so widely,

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the...

To esteem what makes you holy over what makes you happy – that is the greatest dare.