Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 5

• Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

  Jalal Talabani

  Responsibility, Action, Humans

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• Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.

  Susan Jeffers

  Mean, Responsibility, Feelings

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• You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

  Jack Canfield

  Responsibility, Vocabulary, I Can

  Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (2009). “The Success Principles(TM)”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

  Eric Thomas

  Success, Responsibility, Decision

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• People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Moving, Responsibility

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Promises for Your Week”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I really need people to take responsibility for the kind of energy they bring to me.

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Responsibility, People, Energy

  Jill Bolte Taylor (2008). “My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey”, p.127, Penguin

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• If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Responsibility, Being Positive

  John C. Maxwell (2006). “The 17 Essential Qualities of a Team Player: Becoming the Kind of Person Every Team Wants”, p.75, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Challenges, Levels

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• The bad consequences of a government program usually don't show up immediately. And the delay may be long enough to hide the connection between the program and its results. So government never has to say it's sorry - never has to take responsibility for ht misery it causes. Instead it can blame everything on personal greed, profit-hungry corporations, and the 'private sector.' And the government's cure for the problems is to impose bigger programs, more regulation and higher taxes.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Responsibility, Government

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• The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion.

  Thomas Sowell

  Responsibility, Compassion, Hands

  Thomas Sowell (2011). “Dismantling America and Other Controversial Essays (Large Print 16pt)”, p.93, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I'm asking Muslims in the West a very basic question: Will we remain spiritually infantile, caving to cultural pressures to clam up and conform, or will we mature into full-fledged citizens, defending the very pluralism that allows us to be in this part of the world in the first place? My question for non-Muslims is equally basic: Will you succumb to the intimidation of being called "racists," or will you finally challenge us Muslims to take responsibility for our role in what ails Islam?

  Irshad Manji

  Responsibility, Challenges, Islam

  "Irshad Manji: The Trouble with Islam Today". www.pbs.org. August 18, 2006.

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• I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Fun, Responsibility

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• We don't always help people by doing everything for them. That type of behavior can actually contribute to their problems because it helps then never take responsibility on their own.

  Joyce Meyer

  Responsibility, People, Helping

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• Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

  John Stossel

  Dream, Responsibility, People

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• Leaders strengthen credibility by demonstrating that they are not in it for themselves, instead they have the interests of the institution, department, or team and its constituents at heart. Being a servant may not be what many leaders had in mind when they chose to take responsibility for the vision and direction of their organization or team - but serving others is the most glorious and rewarding of all leadership tasks.

  James M. Kouzes

  Team, Responsibility, Heart

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• Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Risk, Growth

  Dyer, Wayne (2005). “Everyday Wisdom”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• For those who can, one of the things to do is not to move. To stay put. That doesn't mean don't travel; it means have a place and get involved in what can be done in that place. That's the only way we're going to have a representative democracy in America. Nobody stays anywhere long enough to take responsibility for a local community.

  Gary Snyder

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  "High peak haikus". Interview with James Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 15, 2005.

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• Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.

  Zev Yaroslavsky

  Responsibility, Government, People

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• The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives

  Dalai Lama

  Spring, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed.

  Jan Carlzon

  Responsibility, Giving, Release

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• You really have so little choice - so little to decide. You get put through the machine and it chops you up and spits you out. Your life, it's all mechanical, of the machine, until you have free will. You can't be accepted into the Work until you have matured -- freed yourself and take responsibility for your life, become accountable for your every action. It's not just from coming to a school. It's an active process - you have to take the responsibility for yourself. When you're trapped in the machine, it doesn't matter what you do.

  E. J. Gold

  School, Responsibility, Choices

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• Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.

  Donald Trump

  Team, Responsibility, Leader

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• Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

  Jack Bauer

  Responsibility, Second Chance, Firsts

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• Oh sure, I have lots of fears. My job is to conquer my fears. The irony of being a performer is that I have huge insecurities. Each of us is responsible for what happens in our lives. When good things happen, we take ownership, but when bad things happen we often don't take responsibility. There are no mistakes or accidents. Consciousness is everything and all things begin with a thought. We are responsible for our own fate. We reap what we sow, we get what we give and we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Jobs, Mistake, Responsibility

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• Through scientific discovery and technological innovation, we enlist the forces of the natural world to solve many of the uniquely human problems we face - feeding and providing energy to agrowing population, improving human health, taking responsibility for protecting the environment and the global ecosystem, and ensuring our own Nation's security. Scientific discoveries inspire and enrich us, teaching us about the mysteries of life and the nature of the world.

  William J. Clinton

  Teaching, Responsibility, Ecosystems

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