once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices …Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to...

He’s done great. He hasn’t wilted. He’s taken the responsibility and done a nice, solid job.

When you do anything from a clear judgment that it ought to be done, never shrink from being seen to do it, even though the world should misunderstand it; for if you are not acting...

When parents neglect their responsibility to correct and discipline their children society suffers. The results are crimes and harm committed against others.

Positive words left unsaid are like sachets of currency notes burnt in vain. Positive deeds left undone are like deep wells filled with soil to the brim. Do the undone, say the unsaid and turn...

Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what?...

The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

You’re afraid of imagination. And even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to sleep, and dreams are a part of sleep. When you’re awake you can...

Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird […], und...

Embrace your responsibility to dream big.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

Countries around the world shoulder major responsibility for development.

This is a big responsibility that must be studied carefully.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Stop blaming and start aiming.

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me...

We were in position to win it but nobody wanted to step up and take responsibility for this game.

All stories have a curious and even dangerous power. They are manifestations of truth — yours and mine. And truth is all at once the most wonderful yet terrifying thing in the world, which makes...

Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same.

Like tiny gods, all that we say and do holds a power so great that any one of us in any given moment can be responsible for the birth of a new civilization or the...

The secretary-general as of today is perceived as a diplomat and political person who has responsibility, this is how he is perceived rather than as a manager. And proper tribute is paid to him for...

Those who wish even to focus on the problem of a Christian ethic are faced with an outrageous demand-from the outset they must give up, as inappropriate to this topic, the very two questions that...

Nuclear weapons and TV have simply intensified the consequences of our tendencies.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you’ve trained them.

battery” one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more.It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man...

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.

One of the great self-deceptions–and one of the great foolishnesses–is to tell yourself, Only I will know. Only you will know that you are a liar; only you will know you deal unethically with people...

One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until this point, always just existed. And now it’s a finite resource, constantly in...

The average person is still under the aberrant delusion that food should be somebody else’s responsibility until I’m ready to eat it.

He treated me like a son and I let him down. I must take some responsibility for him getting the sack. I regret letting him down so much.

I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don’t have to look real far to find somebody. I’m to blame.

This concept of the afterlife really functions as a substitute for wisdom. It functions as a substitute for really absorbing our predicament, which is that everyone is going to die; there are circumstances that are...

The concept of disease is fast replacing the concept of responsibility. With increasing zeal Americans use and interpret the assertion “I am sick” as equivalent to the assertion “I am not responsible”: Smokers say they...

Religion forces every individual to take responsibility. Specifically, take it away from yourself and give it to God. If we had to be accountable for every one of our actions, we’d be crippled with indecision....

You can’t do it for someone else. No matter how much they motivate or inspire you, you have to do it for yourself. Your health is YOUR responsibility.

Here today, may be gone tomorrow! Never take anyone or nothing for granted! Be sure to count your blessing daily because tomorrow isn’t promised.

The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,Extremes too hard to comprehend at. onceYet nothing I should care to...

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

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.