Mentors won’t make you rich. Doctors won’t make you healthy. Nutritionists won’t make you slim. Teachers won’t make you smart. Gurus won’t make you calm. Trainers won’t make you fit. Ultimately, you have to take responsibility. Save yourself.

I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, goingabout his work with dignity, and people may just have treated him with...

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

The actions and emotional responses of others are not your responsibility. You cannot rescue people from themselves. This is for them to do. — André Chevalier

That is my responsibility. Obviously, I think we want to be more productive than what we were in the playoffs. That will be one of the things we look hard at. Offensively, how can we do a better job?

The power to lead is the power to mislead, and the power to mislead is the power to destroy.

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to learn to love both our inner man and woman. It...

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader.Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that...

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

If you have the gift of frustration and the deep sense that the world is a mess, thank God for that; not everyone has that gift of vision. It also means that you have a responsibility to lead us in new ways.

But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all ‘We died at such a place;’ some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives...

Art is by nature aristocratic, and naturally selective in its effect on the audience. For even in its ‘collective’ manifestations, like theatre or cinema, its effect is bound up with the intimate emotions of each person who comes into contact with a work. The more the individual is traumatised and gripped by these emotions, the...

We have within us the power to choose how we respond to a hurtful situation. We cannot control the actions of others, but we can control how we will respond. As we understand our power to choose, we see that we are in control. Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing,...

If your situtation is the fault of anything or anyone else…there is very little hope and absolutely zero power over your own life.”Responsibility is about hope and control. And…who doesn’t want hope for a greater future that their choices control? …Most folks look for their car keys with more energy than they search for the...

Because it’s my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.

It put more responsibility on me. It makes you grow up a lot faster and those are things that I think make you better in the long run.

Feel what it’s like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you’ll forever think twice before wasting food.

Money should not direct you to what to do and what not to do; the giver of the money is responsible for playing that role.

Maintain a belief system that admits that all things are possible for those responsible to have them done. It’s nothing to deny; whenever God calls us for a responsibility, he give the ability for us to respond to that responsibility!

And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in very truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them...

It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.

I am mindful that scientific achievement is rooted in the past, is cultivated to full stature by many contemporaries and flourishes only in favorable environment. No individual is alone responsible for a single stepping stone along the path of progress, and where the path is smooth progress is most rapid. In my own work this...

All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives.

Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.

‎With adulthood comes responsibility.

(The budget proposal) does lay the groundwork for more fiscal responsibility out of the White House but this still has to be approved by Congress. Seeing how this plays out on Capitol Hill will affect the dollar.

Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices.

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

…the phone rang.When the phone rang so early in the morning, it oftentimes meant somebody was dead. An elderly person had passed in the night. A Friday night traffic fatality. The families of deceased would set about the task of notifying family and friends, and somewhere among the sad litany of phone calls, they dialed...

In dreams begin responsibility.

The biggest gift to oneself is affording yourself a chance to learn.

What we found is someone had tried to break into the network. Our responsibility is to ensure that it doesn’t happen again.

To dispense knowledge without moral guidance would be grossly irresponsible.

…the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it, and to foster its renewal, is our only legitimate hope.

No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible.

Some victims do need to “blame” themselves and take responsibility.

As believers, we all have the responsibility to leverage our wealth for kingdom purposes.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

God has buried your leadership roles in your gifting. To take the lead, you got to unzip the gift bag. It’s your responsible to make it happen!

Stronger nuclear families are better than stronger nuclear weapons

In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

It’s always seemed to me that flirtation is a man’s device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won’t be taken seriously.

In the war, to survive, you had to be responsible every minute of every day, unhesitatingly responsible for yourself, for your every action. You had to be responsible for your buddies, too, because survival wasn’t something that could be achieved alone. That’s maybe the one positive thing about fighting in a war – it clarifies...

From the ethical point of view, no one can escape responsibility with the excuse that he is only an individual, on whom the fate of the world does not depend. Not only can this not be known objectively for certain, because it is always possible that it will depend precisely on the individual, but this...

Until all processes are progressed, the world will not process meaningful, measurable progress.Progress the process, in order to process, progress. This shall be the responsibility of those who are for the light of universal innovation, as opposed to the benefactors of sectarian division.

Those two have been really good. John as a senior is taking on greater responsibility and Isaac is taking on that role as only as sophomore.

The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with commitment, to defend what they believe with all the talent they have. I think that’s part of the moral obligation of a writer, which cannot be only purely artistic. I think a writer has some kind of responsibility at least to participate in the civic debate....

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here...

You know what my father said about innocent clients? … He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it’ll scar you for life … He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain,...