Responsibility Quotes - Page 61

You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.

The ethic of conviction and the ethic of responsibility are not opposites. They are complementary to one another.

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

I was raised to believe that everybody has a responsibility to their community.

Love is responsibility of an I for a You: in this consists what cannot consist in any feeling - the equality of all lovers.

The BEST training program in the entire world will be a DISMAL FAILURE if people fail to hold up their end of the deal. The success of ANY training program is ultimately the trainee's responsibility.

And then God gave me insight: this was winter. It would end, in time, but not by my own doing. My responsibility was simply to know the season, and match my actions and inactions to it. It was to learn the slow hard discipline of waiting. It was my season to believe in spite of-to believe in the absence of evidence or emotion, when there's nothing, no bud, no color, no light, no birdsong, to validate belief. It was my time to walk without sight.

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Victimization status is the modern promised land of absolution from personal responsibility.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

I'm slammed with an identity that can no longer say a word; mute with responsibility.

If we bring about that women seek to gain the rights of independence, to increase their sphere of responsibilities, and to incline toward studies, then human abilities will increase daily.

Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.

... Our ability to reason has not given us special status, only a greater responsibility.

And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we do our part for America's seniors. You have earned the best of America -- and we need to make sure you get the protection and health care you deserve.

Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility.

We must stop this incessant victimhood mentality. Somebody else will not fix things. Somebody else will not make me healthy. Somebody else will not make me happy. These things are my responsibility. Not the neighbor’s, not the government’s, not the church or the civic club.

At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.

Are you willing to take responsibility for your team's culture or do you treat it like the weather - something that happens to you?

The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

For me, socialism has always been about liberty and solidarity, but also about responsibility.