Richard L. Evans Quotes

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

The mistakes you make now count. Not for everything, and not forever. But they do matter, and they shape you.If you take nothing else from what I've been through, at least remember this: make your choices well. Because you'll always be accountable for them. That's what being an adult is all about.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

As long as you blame someone or something else - something outside you that's bigger than you are - as the source of your problems, the problems won't get solved.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame - and only one - themselves.

Each individual has got to look themselves in the mirror and try and see what they can do better. Period. Point blank.

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I think when you grow up - and this is a simple thing that I've said numerous times - you should think and act like one.

The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.