2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

No one else “makes” us do anything. They can’t make us nag them, or make us angry, or make us have to strike out at them, or make us drink alcohol, or make us yell at them, or anything else. We are responsible for our choices, including our responses and reactions.

You forget this from time to time, Molly, but you are not alone. I am here. Your family is here. [...] Not every responsibility is yours.

The problem with the idea of cause and effect is that what is deemed the cause is an effect.

If you marry an African, you will marry a man who takes his responsibility for the family seriously

Taking charge of our life reinforces our self-worth.

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 is to learn to live the truth of both the inner man and woman.

Christ invites us to assume the yoke, but we would rather ride in the cart. That is one reason why some find comfort in hero worship. It represents a release from the burden of responsibility (Teryl Givens, The Crucible of Doubt, 62).

Kristo yubahirije inshingano ze z'ububyeyi yiyemeza gutanga ubuzima bwe kugIrango tubeho

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.