Quotes About Responsibility

It is one thing to be angry at someone else, but it is when you are angry at yourself that you realize how stupid you are in some of the decisions you make.

Sometimes we get angry with people, when we should be angry with ourselves, because we gave them the power to change our mood and feelings.

Don't be upset by the results you didn't get from the work you didn't do.

I've learned that our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

Who you are today and what you will become in future is right in your hands, the choice is yours.

We don't get what we deserve, we get what we are.

We are who we are, how we got here doesn't matter. What matters is- what do we do know

You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now.

Who we are and who we will become is the result of our actions, no one can force you to do what you don't want to, you're responsible for your life.

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become.

The generals responsible for the death of most soldiers insist upon their being well fed.

For old age makes us incapable of performing our duties but not, at first, of desiring them.

The generals who get the most soldiers killed insist that they be well fed.

When the compartments in which we live parts of our lives are too different from one another, we can expend ourselves on a person who, by the following day, may come to seem uninteresting. But we feel responsible for what we may have said the night before, and wish to honor it.

And thus for the first time my unhappiness was regarded no longer as a punishable offence but as an involuntary ailment which had been officially recognised, a nervous condition for which I was in no way responsible.

I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them;

It is true that this person is to blame for having lied to us, for she had sworn to us that she would always tell us the truth. But we know from our own shortcomings, towards other people, how little an oath is worth.

We pardon the crimes of individuals, but not their participation in a collective crime.

no one tells you this, how having children multiplies your capacity for suffering.

I go to great lengths to be a good mother. I'm constantly revising my attitudes, which detracts from the spontaneity, and I will be judged for it in the future, there's no doubt. You always do badly as a mother, if not because of this, then because of that. The guilt will always be there, no matter what.

Al final, Ana, nuestra tarea, la de nosotras mujeres, es dar a luz y cerrar los ojos de los muertos. Exactamente los dos pasos claves de la humanidad. Como si la historia realmente dependiese de nuestras manos.

El libertinaje femenino paga costos mientras el masculino cobra méritos.

Jak mÄ› dojímá ženský údÄ›l. Jakým smutkem mÄ› napl?uje. Pro? jen polovina lidstva nese na bedrech tak ohromnou tíhu, zatímco ta druhá odpo?ívá? Ne, nejsem blázen, Ã…â"¢íká si NataÅ¡a. Vím, co Ã…â"¢íkám. Vím, pro? to Ã…â"¢íkám.

Parenthood: That state of being better chaperoned than you were before marriage.