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• When we learn to deal directly with our complaints and difficulties, romanticized ideas about the spiritual path are no longer meaningful. We see that what is important is to take responsibility for ourselves, and to always be aware of our thoughts, feelings, and actions.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Meaningful, Spiritual, Responsibility

  Tarthang Tulku (1977). “Gesture of Balance: A Guide to Awareness, Self-healing, and Meditation”, Dharma Pub

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• If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

  Yehuda Berg

  Responsibility, Race, Years

  "We All Have Oil on Our Hands" by Yehuda Berg, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2010.

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• By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Responsibility, People, Earth

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• We expect forty-year-olds to have grown up at some point, and to be engaged and adult and take responsibility, and doing nothing would seem to go against that.

  Noah Baumbach

  Responsibility, Years, Adults

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• To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

  Mason Cooley

  Responsibility, Leaving Me, Persons

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• We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.

  Bill Hybels

  Christian, Spiritual, Mistake

  "Willow Creek Repents?". www.christianitytoday.com. October 2007.

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• Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.

  Narendra Modi

  Responsibility, People, India

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• I was powerless over my childhood but the coping strategies that I developed, to survive, all of which were creative and brilliant and got me through, as an adult those became my defects of character. Those became my shortcomings, control and all that kind of stuff... and that's my responsibility. I was a blameless child in what happened in the home; I take responsibility for my behaviors as an adult.

  Ashley Judd

  Children, Home, Character

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• Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

  Timothy Leary

  Life, Beautiful, Responsibility

  Timothy Leary (2001). “Your Brain Is God”, p.102, Ronin Publishing

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• All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Baseball, Children, Responsibility

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• I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.

  George W. Bush

  Responsibility, Decision, Looks

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Teacher, Responsibility

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• Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Responsibility, Choices, Conscious

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• Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?

  Brandon Sanderson

  Giving Up, Responsibility, Guilt

  Brandon Sanderson (2010). “The Way of Kings”, p.875, Macmillan

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• I know for me, going back the person I've bad-mouthed or lied to is absolutely humiliating! But isn't it interesting that "humiliating" has the same root word as "humility"? Part of humility is taking responsibility for my sin and asking forgiveness even when it doesn't feel good. God wants to heal and restore your relationships, but it's not easy.

  Chip Ingram

  Humility, Responsibility, Roots

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• What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.

  Fay Godwin

  Responsibility, Aggravation, Greed

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• When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

  Shannon Woodward

  Responsibility, Parent, Mind

  "Shannon Woodward Lives the Good Life on The Riches". Interview with G.J. Donnelly, www.tvguide.com. April 8, 2008.

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• One is that we are all responsible for our actions, our behavior, and our words, and we must take responsibility for everything we say and do. I am the architect of my destiny. You can`t blame other people for things that happened to you.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Responsibility, Destiny, People

  "Madonnarama!". Interview with Rich Cohen, www.vanityfair.com. May 2008.

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• Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Healing, Responsibility, Choices

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• As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.

  Tom Basso

  Responsibility, World, Making Money

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• Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.

  Noam Chomsky

  Believe, Future, Optimistic

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• Take responsibility for the things you build and invent.

  Bill Joy

  Responsibility

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• Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You're either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Responsibility, Order, Choices

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• When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!

  Larry Winget

  Responsibility, Missing, Target

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• I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Dream, Hard Work

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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