Quotes About Responsibility

Logan, you Cavanaughs are like one-stop shopping. Police protection, legal counsel, dinner and last rites—it's all taken care of in one neat little package. Unbelievable!

If it's important enough, I'll make the time. If not, I'll make an excuse.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the economy, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny. Albert Ellis

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you." — Anthony De Mello, Jesuit priest and author

To wait for someone else, or to expect someone else to make my life richer, or fuller, or more satisfying, puts me in a constant state of suspension. — Kathleen Tierney Andrews, author

Speaking of taking responsibility, a quick reminder about an essential universal principle: You are 100 percent responsible for your life. Always and in all ways. It's not your parents. It's not the economy. It's not your husband or your wife or your family. It's not your boss. It's not the schools you went to. It's not the government or society or institutions or your age. You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

The art of eliminating excuses means embracing the fact that your dreams aren't made or broken by anyone but you.

Know that you cannot help but judge. What you then do with your judgment is the choice." — Story Waters, author and spiritual teacher

I had no idea how to find work I'd love doing. Even the idea of trying felt wildly irresponsible.

You are responsible for what you believe, how you feel, and how you behave.

The key to demolishing the time excuse is to first embrace the fact that everything you're doing with your twenty-four hours is a choice. Your choice. A choice that you make and a choice you can change.

Seriously, why didn't Brody or I know about the neighbors? It's not like I'm a dog. I'm not going to hump them in public." At Mike's look, he flushed. "For God's sake, I was twenty years old and drunk. The girl wasn't even real. It was a mannequin and it was all Brody's idea.

It comes down to this. Some one must wash the dishes. Now, would you expect man, man made in the image of God, to roll up his sleeves and wash the dishes? Why, it would be blasphemy. I know that I am but a rib and so I wash the dishes.

Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.

the emphasis Scripture (COL. 3:19) places on instructing husbands to care for and respect their wives just as Christ did the church leaves no room for excusing a husband's violent and abusive behavior toward his wife

from Indo-China— put in some wild yeast from the air, ferment it and voilà! you've now got Vodka for the Volga, beer for the Brits, Bourbon for Balboa's kids, Joy-juice for the Kickapoos. Pour this into an Inner City and create your Designated Criminal Class purely to blame for everything, or rub it on the Reservations and

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future.

Are you willing to take responsibility for your mistakes — and for the attitudes and actions that led to them?' Then he said, 'Are you willing — however begrudgingly — to forgive yourself, and even laugh at yourself?' And finally, 'Will you look for value in your experiences, especially the most difficult ones?' Bottom line, 'Are you willing to learn from what happened and make changes accordingly?

Blame keeps us stuck in the past. Responsibility paves the path for a better future. Blame

Health and disease don't just happen to us. They are active processes issuing from inner harmony or disharmony, profoundly affected by our states of consciousness, our ability or inability to flow with experience. This recognition carries with it implicit responsibility and opportunity.

It does seem true that a young woman may sometimes behave in a way that can be called titillating, and that men take such behavior as being directed entirely at them. [...] I've often seen blushing young men with shining eyes behave in the same way, but no one says of them that they want to be raped. If, after taking a few steps forward, they then decide to retreat, no one accuses them of being cunt teasers. In fact, the disappointed woman probably thinks it's all her fault.

As a teacher you are more or less obliged to pay the same amount of attention to everything. That can wear you down.

I was married to someone who wanted me to change. Become more adult, more responsible. I began not to like myself, not like what I do. I lost my identity. Everything began collapsing around me.