“Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them.”

A dog does not live as long as a man and this natural law is the fount of many tears. If boy and puppy might grow to manhood and doghood together, and together grow old.

To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.

An author never has a vacation. He’s a walking sponge, sopping up impressions till he’s saturated, then going to his desk and squeezing them out on paper.

And so in due course die, full many a heartache might be avoided. But the world is not so ordered, and dogs will die and men will weep for them so long as there are dogs and men.

Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

If you don’t want responsibility, don’t sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don’t blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Your character defects are not where you’re bad, but where you’re wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it’s yours now and you’re responsible for it.

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

What is in one is in the whole, and therefore, ultimately, Each soul is responsible for the whole world.