Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 12

• There is no such thing as society, there is a living tapestry of men and women and the beauty of that tapestry, and the quality of our lives, will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and to turn round and help, by our own efforts, those who are unfortunate. There's no such thing as entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Men, Effort

  "Thatcher funeral address prompts Tory praise for bishop of London" by Patrick Wintour, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2013.

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• If you don’t take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

  Paul McKenna

  Responsibility, Programming, Ifs

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• Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.

  Thuy Trang

  Growing Up, Kids, Responsibility

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• I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready.

  Emma Bonino

  Responsibility, Should Have, Worried

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• In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.

  David de Kretser

  Responsibility, Race, Long

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• An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

  Jan Carlzon

  Responsibility, Information, Helping

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• If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices:
  1-Totally accept it.
  2- Change it.
  3-Remove myself from the situation.
  That is taking responsibility for my life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Choices, Three

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• When life does not go our way or we inadvertently make a mistake, it is so easy to make excuses, place blame on others, or argue that circumstances were against us. But we only progress in life to the extent that we take responsibility for our actions and attitudes, and put forth the initiative necessary to create our own circumstances.

  Stephen Covey

  Attitude, Freedom, Mistake

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• Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.

  Jonathan Schell

  Inspiring, Responsibility, Extinction

  Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, Stanford University Press

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• I was lucky. My grandmother stepped up for me and said she would take responsibility for me and a compassionate juvenile judge took a chance and gave me one. They were getting ready to send me away to do real time, but they sent me instead to a juvenile alternative day school. And I guess that was the beginning of my turnaround.

  Bob Beamon

  Sports, Real, Responsibility

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• The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.

  Tony Juniper

  Responsibility, Energy, World

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• People could achieve much more if only they would put in more effort. You must take responsibility for your own life. Be conscious of how you use your time! Be conscious of how you listen! Be conscious of how you manage all of your affairs, so that God can look upon you and be well pleased. Seek God's honor in everything you do.

  Johan Oscar Smith

  Life Changing, Responsibility, People

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• For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent. Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards... If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve... Whatever happens, take responsibility... The only thing that's keeping you from getting what you want is the story you keep telling yourself.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Attitude, Responsibility

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• It is important to recognize the power of our emotions-and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Life, Attitude, Loneliness

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• We can all take responsibility for helping to bring about change, and keeping our friends and colleagues safe from domestic violence

  Charles Clarke

  Responsibility, Domestic Violence, Against Violence

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• Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes, and for your failures. You can't go blaming others, or being jealous. Seeing somebody else's success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.

  Kevin Bacon

  Failure, Jealous, Responsibility

  "Kevin Bacon: this much I know". Interview with Jane Mulkerrins, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.

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• Anyone who takes responsibility for getting something done is welcome to ask for the authority to do it.

  Seth

  Responsibility, Done, Welcome

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• Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Responsibility, Animal

  Cesar Millan, Melissa Jo Peltier (2007). “Be the Pack Leader: Use Cesar's Way to Transform Your Dog . . . and Your Life”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.

  Richard Marshall

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's hard for anyone, no matter what their age, having a child and trying to make a career, but you survive. My mum always had the motto 'You made your bed, you lie in it' and I guess I had to take responsibility for myself.

  Lisa Maffia

  Children, Lying, Responsibility

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• We happily give up our freedom and our income in exchange for having someone else take responsibility for telling us what to do next.

  Seth

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Income

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

  Bruce Lee

  Responsibility, Action, Good And Bad

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• If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.

  Huston Smith

  Responsibility, Yield, People

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• Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.

  Gary Snyder

  Responsibility, Environmental, Blue Planet

  Gary Snyder (1974). “Turtle Island”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

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• People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Believe, Responsibility

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