Quotes about Responsibility

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

It is one of the great ironies of our time that those who pass for "black leaders" are so vocal about every perceived racial slight, and yet are not only silent—but even supportive—of the most overt and destructive attack on black Americans: abortion on demand.

T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.

Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way.

You know it makes one feel rather good deciding not to be a bitch. Yes. It's sort of what we have instead of God.

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

If a husband works until six he gets only a little drunk on the way home and does not waste too much. If he works only until five he is drunk every night and one has no money. It is the wife of the working man who suffers from this shortening of hours.

You're going to have things to repent, boy," Mr. John had told Nick. "That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

But in the Gulf you got time. And I'm figuring all the time. I've got to think right all the time. I can't make a mistake. Not a mistake. Not once. Well, I got something to think about now all right. Something to do and something to think about besides wondering what the hell's going to happen. Besides wondering what's going to happen to the whole damn thing.

She said that nothing is done to oneself that one does not accept and that if I love someone it would take it all away. What

Let them all go to hell, except the people, and then, when they come to power, we must be dam cautious to see what they will become.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?