Personal Responsibility Quotes - Page 4

• One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

  Jim Rohn

  Mean, Responsibility, Successful

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• I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Girl

  Oprah Winfrey, Janet Lowe (1998). “Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice”, John Wiley & Sons

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• I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Nelson Mandela from Mar 01, 2017

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• The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Trust, Teamwork

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Managing the Non-Profit Organization”, p.14, Routledge

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• If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Friendship, Self, People

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• The leader sees leadership as responsibility rather than as rank and privilege.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Responsibility, Ranking

  Peter Drucker (2013). “Managing for the Future”, p.102, Routledge

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• Life will bring you pain all by itself. Your responsibility is to create joy.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Education is the best way to train ourselves that we will secure our own well-being by concerning ourselves with others. It is possible to create a better world, a more compassionate, more peaceful world, which is not only in everyone’s interest, but is everyone’s responsibility to achieve.

  Dalai Lama

  Happy, Responsibility, Peaceful

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

  Deepak Chopra

  Responsibility, Positivity, Decision

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Apr 27, 2011

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• Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

  Jim Rohn

  Perseverance, Integrity, Character

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 22, 2016

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• Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Compassion, Dedication

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.425, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• The future will be in the hands of those of you who belong to the 21st century. You have the opportunity and responsibility to build a better humanity. This means developing warm-heartednes s in this very life, here and now. So, do whatever work you do, but ask yourselves now and then, 'How can I contribute to human beings being happier and more peaceful?'

  Dalai Lama

  Mean, Responsibility, Opportunity

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• Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do.

  Jim Rohn

  Responsibility, Over You, Employers

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 18, 2016

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• Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.

  Jennifer Young

  Pain, Moving, Recovery

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• Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot harder to act responsibly when consumer credit contracts are designed to be incomprehensible, when prices are obscure and risks are hidden.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Responsibility, Risk, Credit

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you own this story you get to write the ending.

  Brené Brown

  Writing, Stories, Taking Responsibility

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.73, Penguin

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• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  Josiah Stamp

  Integrity, Responsibility, Community

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• Freedom is not only a gift, but a summons to personal responsibility.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility

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• You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

  Martin Luther

  Responsibility, Responsible, Inspirational Kindness

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• It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can help others. It is only people with a sense of personal responsibility who can be helped in a lasting way.

  Eric Sevareid

  Responsibility, Helping Others, People

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• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Wisdom, Future

  George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.315, 1st World Publishing

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• Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.

  Barry Eisler

  Responsibility, Self, Causes

  "Fictional Politics" by Barry Eisler, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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• My biggest dream is that my words will inspire heart, hope and personal responsibility in people around the globe long after my feet in these shoes aren't walking the planet.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Dream, Moving, Heart

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• A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves". Book by Orison Swett Marden, archive.org. 1901.

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