Quotes About Responsibility

Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

When we acknowledge that all of life is sacred and that each act is an act of choice and therefore sacred, then life is a sacred dance lived consciously each moment. When we live at this level, we participate in the creation of a better world.

If you can't control your peanut butter, you can't expect to control your life.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.

And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.

Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built upon the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control the process of choosing, you can take control of all aspects of your life. You can find the freedom that comes from being in charge of yourself.

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Life, like a mirror, never gives back more than we put into it.

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Let the buyer beware.

Live your own life, for you will die your own death.

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.

I try to live what I consider a poetic existence. That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work.

Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

I actually thought that it would be a little confusing during the same period of your life to be in one meeting when you're trying to make money, and then go to another meeting where you're giving it away.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.