Taking Charge Quotes

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  Harold Geneen

  Business, Uncertainty And Doubt, Uncertainty Of Life

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• We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within.

  Earl Nightingale

  Life, Success, Business

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.84, Lulu.com

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• Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Becoming, Management, Integrated

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• 'Taking charge of one's life' involves risk, because it means confronting a diversity of open possibilities.

  Anthony Giddens

  Life, Mean, Diversity

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.78, John Wiley & Sons

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• When placed in command, take charge.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "Leadership". Book by David M. Atkinson, p. 42, 2007.

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• Take charge of your attitude.
  Don't let someone else choose it for you.

  Dale Carnegie

  Attitude, My Attitude, Positive Mental Attitude

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• Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

  Robin Crow

  Responsibility, Odds, Vision

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

  Jim Ryun

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

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• We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

  Les Brown

  Success, Dream, Determination

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• You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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• Strength is taking charge of your own destiny and not waiting on others to do so. You don’t have to swear and drink and beat people up and slay monsters. You’re allowed to cry and take care of children and cook and get your heart broken and dress up and date and get pregnant. But when decisions have to be made, a strong character makes them and doesn’t wait for someone else.

  Mur Lafferty

  Strong, Children, Heart

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• Around the world, the generals are being ousted, and the poets are taking charge.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Leadership, World, Hospitality

  Warren G. Bennis (1993). “An Invented Life: Reflections on Leadership and Change”, Addison Wesley Publishing Company

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• Getting fit is a political act - you are taking charge of your life.

  Jane Fonda

  Fitness Motivational, Political, Get Fit

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• Life is to be experienced, not fought against, run from, or engaged halfheartedly. Though we may wish to make changes in the future, to be conscious is to be with an experience as it’s unfolding, rather than thinking about how we would like to change it. Taking charge of our life so that we alter the quality of our experiences in the future comes after an experience.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Running, Thinking, Wish

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• Many people don't know about the power of good feelings, and so their feelings are reactions or responses to what happens to them. They have put their feelings on automatic pilot, instead of deliberately taking charge of them.

  Rhonda Byrne

  Inspirational, People, Feelings

  Rhonda Byrne (2011). “The Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Fear, Rain, Believe

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.152, Pan Macmillan

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• Never stand and take a charge... charge them too.

  Nathan Bedford Forrest

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• Jesus, to be sure, often spent long times alone in prayer. But he was also deeply at home where there was a party, a kingdom party, a celebration of the fact that God was at last taking charge.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Prayer, Party

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• God would love to piece together the shattered fragments of your life. But He is waiting ... graciously waiting until the time is right. Until you are tired of the life you are living ... until you see it for what it really is. Until you are weary of coping ... of taking charge of your own life ... until you realize the mess you are making of it. Until you recognize your need for Him ... He's waiting.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Tired, Waiting, Together

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.141, Thomas Nelson

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• Simplicity means taking charge of a life that is too busy, too stressed, and too fragmented. An uncluttered simplicity means cutting back on trivial distractions, both material and non-material, and focusing on the essentials - whatever those may be for each of our unique lives.

  Duane Elgin

  Mean, Cutting, Unique

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• I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.

  Lucy Larcom

  Money, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• 'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that occurred during wartime, when Rosie the Riveter went to work in the factories, constructing the Allies' war machines while taking charge of the finances, the home, and the children.

  Grace Slick

  Children, Couple, War

  Grace Slick, Andrea Cagan (2008). “Somebody to Love?: A Rock-and-Roll Memoir”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Mother, Daughter, Father

  "American Dreamer" by Bharati Mukherjee, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1997.

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