Quotes About Responsibility

Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is...? ...ourselves.

Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a reason to live — to learn, to discover, to be free!

Every person, all the events in your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. Richard Bach

Yo soy el hechicero, y cuando abra los ojos veré un mundo que he creado yo, y por el cual sólo yo soy completamente responsable».

EÄŸer olanlar hiçbir zaman sizin hatan?z deÄŸilse, sorumluluk alam?yorsunuz demektir. EÄŸer hiçbir ÅŸeyin sorumluluÄŸunu üstlenemiyorsan?z, daima bir ÅŸeylerin maÄŸduru olursunuz.

There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from.

Flock, but it was Jonathan's voice raised. "Irresponsibility? My brothers!" he cried. "Who is more responsible than a gull who finds and follows a meaning, a higher purpose for life? For a thousand years we have scrabbled after fish heads, but now we have a reason to live—to learn, to discover, to be free! Give me one chance, let me show you what I've found . . . 

for your limitations,    and sure enough,          they're       yours.

Hayat?n?zdaki herkes ve bütün olaylar siz onlar? oraya çektiÄŸiniz için oradalar. Onlarla ne yapmay? seçeceÄŸiniz size kalm??t?r.

Wenn man sich für jemanden verantwortlich fühlt, kann es sein, daß man ihn schließlich haßt.

when you work for the Government, the Government is twice as aware that you're alive

The first fact was that if Heidi hadn't picked that particular day to try out a little autoeroticism, Halleck would have been on top of his job and his responsibility as the operator of a motor vehicle

So why are we still being lied to about these cases? They seem to be missing a basic point about Democracy— they are our employees. They're employed by us— We, The People. How dare they withhold the truth from us!

PETER. Egad — and so we must — that's impossible. Ah! Master Rowley when an old Batchelor marries a young wife — He deserves — no the crime carries the Punishment along with it.

What would happen if you didn't do the thing you "have to" do?

My best friend, Benjamin Shield, taught me this valuable lesson. Often our inner struggles come from our tendency to jump on board someone else's problem; someone throws you a concern and you assume you must catch it, and respond.

Remember, when you die, there will still be unfinished business to take care of. And you know what? Someone else will do it for you! Don't waste any more precious moments of your life regretting the inevitable.

Something needed to change - and fast. But it wasn't the world, government, or women that needed to change. It was me.

Most guys will walk into a marriage thinking... Well I just did what I was always told to do... and I said I do. And I was a stand up guy. But I don't understand why she was fucking her Boss.

Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, distinctly heard the voice of Jesus telling him to kill women, and he was locked up for life. George W. Bush says that God told him to invade Iraq (a pity God didn't vouchsafe him a revelation that there were no weapons of mass destruction).

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. [...] Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and somebody else must be to blame if I am hurt. Is it a similar infantilism that really lies behind the 'need' for a God?

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else (parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults) has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point. . . . The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. And we can make it very wonderful indeed.

However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will never even be offered life in the first place?