Brandon Sanderson Quotes

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

I never feel like I should have any time free.

Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

You have a conscience, and a conscience is a valuable attribute, but not if it begins to make you think you were to blame for what is far beyond the scope of your responsibility.

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

We tend to think that people are more to blame for their acts than for their omissions.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I'm not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I'm going to do something, I have to do it.

What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

But I felt all the more bound to make this proposal, because it at once turns to a reproach.

I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.

He that wounds himself, even though he has not the right, is not culpable; but if others have wounded him, they are culpable.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.

When I have time, I'll be a good girl and do my chores.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

If you're responsible, and you're willing to take responsibility, we'll give you a pass.

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.