Quotes About Responsibility

"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul." ~ Anna Quindlen

Many of life's circumstances are created by three basic choices: the disciplines you choose to keep, the people you choose to be with; and, the laws you choose to obey

"You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul."

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

Too often we think we can act without explaining and take decisions without justifying them.

I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

Giving up represents a choice you make when you decide not to take action on something over which you actually do have control.

The consequences of decisions don't just affect spreadsheets... They affect, in fundamental ways, the lives of people and they often mean the difference between life and death.

Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Only when we eat up this planet will God give us another. We'll be remembered more for what we destroy than what we create.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility.

Is life so wretched? Isn't it rather your hands which are too small, your vision which is muddled? You are the one who must grow up.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you begin to die a little.

If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

For better or worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life.