66 Quotes About Responsibilities

Fowls are incessant feeders and early risers, if we incessantly feed our minds healthfully and rise early to our possibilities and responsibilities, we will crow with success.

Are you here to kill me quickly with violence? Or slowly with responsibility?

We bear financial responsibilities that men had in the old days while still saddled with traditional caregiving duties. We generally incur this double whammy precisely while hitting peak stress in both our careers and child-raising--in our forties, at an age when most of our mothers and grandmothers were already empty nesters.

Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix.

The answer to the question ‘How many children do you have?’ and the one to the question ‘How many children are you raising?’ are not identical in all cases: some men are not taking care of their own children, some are knowingly or unknowingly raising other men’s children, and some do not even know that they each have a child, another child, or other children.

لم يعد أحد يطالبه بشيء في هذه السن المتقدمة، لكنه مصر على تحمل المسئوليات كلها وإرهاق نفسه بلا داع .. هذه ليست بسالة، بل هو سلوك طفل لا يصدق أن الحياة يمكن أن تتحرك من دونه.

When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky.

Lightening my load of stuff and responsibilities freed me to look forward to planning and creating a living situation that was sustainable and lessened potential stress in caring for a home and its contents as I aged.

If something’s not the path for you, you have to leave. If you feel like you’re turning into the kind of person you don’t want to be. And you know, it only gets harder as you get older, have more responsibilities.