Virginia Woolf Quotes

People are decisions and actions.

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Before every action ask yourself. Will this bring more monkeys on my back. Will the result of my action be a blessing or a heavy burden?

Though I was standing in front of a mirror, I wasn't really seeing my reflection. I was seeing, very clearly, that—at the moment—I was all in the world that Eric could think of as his own. I had better not fail him.

When it's over and you look in the mirror, did you do the best you were capable of? If yes, you will probably be ok with the outcome

A person of responsibility can trust himself to choose the right thing over the easy thing.

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

In the end, we must restore a balance within ourselves between who we are and what we are doing. Each of us must take a greater personal responsibility for this deteriorating global environment; each of us must take a hard look at the habits of mind and action that reflect - and have led to - this grave crisis.

Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

Sometimes you have to make decisions that necessarily exclude the collective. It's more difficult to be a friend - even though they know each other and they treat each other like friends, it's more of a challenge for them. It's just institutional fact; the two characters that are the most aloof are the ones who have the most responsibility.

Age carries with it a double load of guilt.

I cannot shift the blame for Chechnya, for the sorrow of numerous mothers and fathers. I made the decision, therefore I am responsible.

In my heart, I never called one wrong.

Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?

The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for your way of life.

You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today.