Responsibilities In Life Quotes:

You need responsibility in life.

- Gordon Strachan

topic: Responsibility, Needs, Responsibilities In Life

I'm not saying you have to be married to be a good footballer. I'm just saying it felt strange to come to a club where there are only three members of the first-team squad that are married. You need responsibility in life.

- Gordon Strachan

source: "Gordon Strachan tells Boro to get a wife". www.mirror.co.uk. November 06, 2009.

topic: Responsibility, Needs, Responsibilities In Life

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.

- Michael Korda

source: "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.

topic: Success, Responsibility, People, Love And Responsibility, Great Responsibility

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Basketball, Peace, Social Responsibility, Love And Responsibility

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Running, Philosophy, Believe, Self Determination, Make Your Own Choices

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

- Jean-Paul Sartre

source: Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

topic: Freedom, Responsibility, Men, Condemning, Responsibility For Your Life

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 ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

- Albert Ellis

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Always Happy, Joy Happiness

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

topic: Change, Grief, Learning, Way In Life, Empowering Women

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

- James Allen

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Just Living Life, Human Soul

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

- Erica Jong

source: FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Being Strong, Powerful Women, Just Being You

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

- Joan Didion

source: FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

topic: Life, Respect, Self Esteem, Good Character, Inspirational Character

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

- Les Brown

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inspirational Student, Staying Positive In Life

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

- Les Brown

topic: Music, Dream, Teacher, Inspirational Dream, Lack Of Responsibility

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

- Theodore Roosevelt

source: Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Wisdom, Responsibility, Pants, Blaming Others, Inspirational Presidential

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation

- C. Everett Koop

topic: Responsibility, Parenting, Generations, Inspirational Parenting, Inspirational Parents

We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

source: "Letters and Papers from Prison".

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Love And Responsibility, Readiness

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happy, Generation Gap, Fulfillment In Life

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

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Fear, Clever, Independence And Freedom, Man And Superman

Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?

- Sylvia Plath

topic: Mother, Responsibility, Broken, Mother Goose, Responsibilities In Life

It is by education that we become prepared for our duties and responsibilities in life. If one is badly educated he must naturally fail in the proper assumption and practice of his duties and responsibilities.

- Marcus Garvey

source: Marcus Garvey, Tony Martin (1986). “Message to the People: The Course of African Philosophy”, p.98, The Majority Press

topic: Responsibility, Practice, Assumption, Responsibilities In Life

As I've picked up more responsibilities in life, I've found nearly every one of those extra burdens drains me in a way that makes writing more difficult. That may not be the case for everyone - I know plenty of writers and artists who seem to have energy in abundance for all the facets of life; but are they producing anything worthwhile?

- Kevin Keck

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Writing, Responsibility, Artist, Responsibilities In Life

Finding and creating your life's work, even if it is entirely different from what you have done most of your life, will bring you more happiness and health than any other action you can take. If your primary responsibility in life is being true to yourself, that can only be accomplished by carrying out what you are called to do - your unique and special vocation...Your life's work involves doing what you love and loving what you do.

- Dennis Kimbro

topic: Peace, Responsibility, Passion, Loving What You Do, Creating Your Life

To provide for the future is a part of one's responsibility in life; and the world has scant consideration for the man who neglects it.

- Henry Latham Doherty

topic: Life, Responsibility, Men, Responsibilities In Life

A person who is inherently and intuitively curious is often intellectually and distinctly very serious towards his roles and responsibilities in life.

- Anuj

topic: Responsibility, Roles, Serious, Roles And Responsibilities, Responsibilities In Life

We all have a responsibility in life to do what we can to help those less fortunate.

- Roger Moore

source: "Portrait of the artist: Roger Moore, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2011.

topic: Responsibility, Helping, Those Less Fortunate, Less Fortunate, Responsibilities In Life