Quotes about responsibility

As Fisher told me his story, I found myself wondering how much of what we end up doing – or being – is inevitable, and how much is choice? Dad told me that he had to accept responsibility. Most of us have met that moment where we suddenly realize the things that we once sought are now falling into a different order of priorities. Sometimes, we have to find a way to change our lives, to re-embrace that which seems to be vanishing.

Other times, we simply abandon our dreams.

The most important part of strategy is keeping your men alive. If you take care of your men, they’ll take care of you.

To have a child is to be impaled daily on the spike of responsibility.

Responsibility is active. Vigilant. Actions become character and character becomes destiny. . .the moment you see something is wrong, you have a responsibility.

Don’t you realize you have a responsibility to other people to look after yourself?

I never heard them over their juleps express a philosophy of life, and if I had it would have been incomprehensible to me, but a philosophy was implicit in all their thoughts and actions. It probably made the Southern pattern. Perhaps it is all contained in a remark of Father's when he was thinking aloud one night and I sat at his feet eavesdropping eagerly: "I guess a man's job is to make the world a better place to live in, so far as he is able – always remembering the results will be infinitesimal – and to attend to his own soul." (Ch. 7)

He hated suicides. ... Was suicide just the coward's refuge from some black despair? Or was it in its way an act of courage that revealed a perverted sort of valour? Not that, though. So many other lives were intertwined: no burdens were shed — they were merely passed from the shoulders of one to those of another.

I cant back up and start over. But I dont see the point in slobberin over it. And I cant see where it would make me feel better to be able to point a finger at somebody else.

This is the world you have made yourself, now you have to live in it.

Ask not for whom the buck stops, I thought, it stops for thee.

Those forced to make impossible choices are rarely loved. If it’s approval and reputation you care about, then you have no place here.

"There are some forms of knowledge which it is unwise to spread; men are not yet ready to handle them."