Quotes about Responsibility
If you break little promises you'll break big ones. That's what you said.
— Cormac McCarthy
Three weeks ago I was a law abidin citizen. Workin a nine to five job. Eight to four, anyways. Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.
— Cormac McCarthy
Do you think that your fathers are watching? That they weigh you in their ledger book? Against what? There is no book and your fathers are dead in the ground.
— Cormac McCarthy
The boy stood up and got his broom and put it over his shoulder. He looked at his father. What are our long term goals? he said. What? Our long term goals. Where did you hear that? I dont know. No, where did you? You said it. When? A long time ago. What was the answer? I dont know. Well. I dont either. Come on. It's getting dark.
— Cormac McCarthy
William had to be at his office at eight, so his mother got up at seven o' clock to prepare him. He was usually late, or on the verge of lateness. But nothing could hurry him.
— DH Lawrence
Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.
— DH Lawrence
British writer G. K. Chesterton's reply to an invitation by the Times to write an essay on the subject "What's Wrong with the World?" Chesterton's response: Dear Sirs, I am. Sincerely, G. K. Chesterton
— Dale Carnegie
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof," said Confucius, "when your own doorstep is unclean.
— Dale Carnegie
For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.
— Dale Carnegie
We must remember that our children are very much what we make them.
— Dale Carnegie
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
— Dale Carnegie
from Thomas Carlyle that helped him lead a life free from worry: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
— Dale Carnegie