Quotes About Responsibility

Everything that surrounds you right now in your life, including the things you're complaining about, you've attracted.

Your life is in your hands. No matter where you are now, no matter what has happened in your life, you can begin to consciously

Your life is a reflection of what you hold inside you, and what you hold inside you is always under your control.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving." Albert Einstein (1879–1955) NOBEL PRIZE–WINNING PHYSICIST

You cannot create other people's lives for them.

It's not the circumstances of life that are preventing you from being happy; it's the excuses you're making not to be happy.

Life doesn't just happen to you; you receive everything in your life based on what you've given.

I'm teaching you how to survive in a difficult world. You can't be under your parents' thumb forever. You have to take charge of your own life now you're going to be twenty-one.

I really should be getting home. The family will be waiting to see me," Pamela said.

Emily?" Her mother's strident voice echoed up the staircase. "Where are you, child? I told you we would be leaving at ten thirty on the dot. Come along. We can't keep the young men waiting. Best foot forward.

He looked up. "Did you just leave them where they were?" Watkins nodded. "I thought we

My father in turn had done his duty and married the daughter of a frightfully correct English earl. She gave birth to my brother, looked around at her utterly bleak Highland surroundings, and promptly died.

People will let you down. All the time they'll let you down. But you must never let them down.

According to the Tax Foundation, Tax Freedom Day is April 19, meaning that every dollar you earn for the first four months of the year goes to taxes. Put another way, you work nearly three hours of each workday just to pay taxes.

The acting CEO cannot be blamed or credited for the company's performance, and that makes the system independent of the CEO. Blame or credit falls on each manager and employee. The CEO should be the quarterback, not God. In a sense, it makes us like Switzerland, where many citizens have a hard time remembering their President's name. Solidarity comes as a consequence of collective action, and not from one personality.

At Semco, you are what you do, not what or whom you control.

Now Semco employees are free to customize their workdays, to come in earlier or later than traditional schedules. The hours they work are determined by their self-interest, not by company dictates. They're the best judges of the amount of time and the proper place necessary to get their job done.

Dios existió a la 1:50 a.m., en fin, para darle las gracias por ella, para sospechar que nunca un esposo quiso tanto a su esposa, para susurrar que es mejor que la gente no lo sepa, pues nadie dormiría tranquilo si lo supiera, pero la verdad es que el mundo depende de que ella siga bien.

Durkon: You're only saying that because you don't want the world to end. Roy: Of course I'm only saying that because I don't want the world to end. This is not an otherwise common topic of conversation .

The gods don't deserve any special deference solely because they're powerful. If they can judge us based on our actions, we should be treating them according to their own.

As an American, I'd like to apologize-for everything.

So that was Jack's passage into manhood. He was dishonest with the girl he loved. Manhood means learning who you are.

Sorry about the mess," Collingsworth said apologetically. "Sia left it shipshape last fall, but you know how it is. One turns one's back, and entropy takes over.

Hand-wringing parents don't want their precious offspring looking at wieners and hoo-hahs when they're supposed to be amassing student debt, so they demand that the Termite Mound fix the problem by Doing Something.