Quotes About Responsibility

Look, we all make mistakes. That is no problem. But you have to be willing to make up for your mistakes and to help yourself.

As long as I really stay on top of my school work, which I'm for the most part able to do, it's really no problem, me missing school.

I have no problem in confessing that I drink alcohol but I always take it in a very limited manner.

People Should be judged by their actions, since in the end, it was actions that defined everyone.

He fell asleep almost immediately but woke an hour later. Tiptoe-ing outside again, he went to check on the daughter he loved more than life itself.

My mother laughed and told me she was only doing what mothers have always done for their sons. Then she told me that it was my job to prove that she hadn't been lying, because that's what sons were supposed to do for their mothers.

I don't think I've ever met a twenty-two-year-old who's never had a drink.

But if you'd told me, I would have been around more. We could have seen each other more, I could have helped you so you wouldn't be so tired all of the time. Just knowing you were here was more than enough. But maybe you wouldn't have ended up in the hospital. He reached for her hand. Or maybe watching you enjoy a care-free summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

You made the decision, not I, and every decision has consequences. You have to take responsibility for the choices you make.

On and on they went these nevers, but despite their random natures I found myself following almost every one perhaps bc I never wanted to disappoint my father. His voice even now follows me now on this longest of rides this thing called life.

Studeren was niet het echte leven. Het was een fantasiewereld, dat wist ze, en totaal anders dan de wereld waarin ze over een paar maanden terecht zou komen. In tegenstelling tot een echte baan, begonnen haar colleges pas om tien uur en waren ze vaak rond twee uur afgelopen. Avonden en weekenden werden meestal alleen maar aan plezier, gezelligheid en het verleggen van grenzen besteed.

She looked directly at me. "You're a great father, Russ. I know that now. If you're willing to move to Atlanta like Marge said, and you want to split time with London, I think we can probably figure something out." Which is exactly

and many people believed that having children had nothing to do with raising them.

Not like Mr. My Dog Shall Be Free and I Don't Work Fridays.

Cuando alguien te engaña, la primera vez es culpa suya, la segunda vez, la culpa es tuya.

Los niños se ponen insoportables cuando empiezan a comprender el mundo de los adultos, sin tener la madurez de los adultos para enfrentarse a todo lo que pasa a su alrededor.

I hadn't helped anybody learn anything, I'd just allowed them to be themselves; I was there for a day to ensure that room 18 didn't descend into utter chaos. My role was to function as straight man, to give these kids the pleasure of avoiding meaningless schoolwork. And that was maybe a useful role.

It's the way I walk through the world, carrying that fear, that the beloved will go, will die, and that I will be the one to blame.

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

And it's not like you never do anything wrong ever, is it?' said Marcus. 'I mean...' He had to be careful here. He knew he couldn't say too much or even anything at all about the hospital stuff. 'I mean how come I got to know Will in the first place?' Because you threw a bloody great baguette at a duck's head and killed it, basically,' said Will.

Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships?

If the price you have to pay for a sin is so high that you end up wanting to kill yourself and committing suicide is an even worse sin, then Someone's done his sums wrong. Someone's overcharging.

Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality.