Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 10

• The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Responsibility, Our World, Way

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• Take responsibility and go to work so God has something to help us with.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Responsibility, Helping

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• As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
  If you keep learning, you'll improve.
  If you improve, your leadership will get better.
  And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.

  John C. Maxwell

  Responsibility, Leader, Get Better

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “The Right to Lead: Learning Leadership Through Character and Courage”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.

  Joe Biden

  Responsibility, Talking, People

  Debate between Vice President Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, moderated by Martha Raddatz of ABC News, www.npr.org. October 11, 2012.

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• A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.

  Peter DeFazio

  Home, Responsibility, Government

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• The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.

  Deborah

  Attitude, Responsibility, Thinking

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• You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.

  James Redfield

  Children, Responsibility, Giving

  James Redfield (1993). “The celestine prophecy: an adventure”, Atticus Press & Company (AL)

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• I don't like to have to depend on someone else to reset the props. It's like, "No, you've gotta take responsibility for it." I know how things fit and feel. To reset that stuff myself, it's easy. The prop guys are hilarious because I'll have one set of gloves and I'll keep reusing them to get the most out of it. They're like, "We've got boxes of these."

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Responsibility, Guy, Gloves

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I believe we've been given free will, and we can take responsibility for our own lives and for creating our own environments - which I think at times can be a little much for people to deal with.

  Alanis Morissette

  Believe, Responsibility, Thinking

  "New Again: Alanis Morissette". Interview with Elizabeth Weitzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 15, 2015.

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• Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself!

  Susan Jeffers

  Mean, Responsibility, Blame

  Susan Jeffers (2014). “Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway”, p.57, Random House

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• Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Being Human, Paradox

  Twitter post from Oct 03, 2011

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• I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

  Story Musgrave

  Life Lesson, Responsibility, Thinking

  "NASA Distinguished Service Medal"". The Academy of Achievement Interview in Baltimore, Maryland, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• I've done some stupid things. You just have to take responsibility, go, That was embarrassing, and move forward as best you can.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Mistake, Stupid, Moving

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• Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

  Melody Beattie

  Pain, Real, Responsibility

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control. At some point, it's all out of our hands.

  Faye Dunaway

  Responsibility, Hands, Kind

  "Faye Dunaway: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. April 28, 2015.

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• We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Integrity, Responsibility, Our Actions

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• I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

  Alex Sink

  Responsibility, Want, Cabinets

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• You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Responsibility, Responsible, Belonging

  "Revolution as a New Beginning: an Interview with Grace Lee Boggs". Interview with Adrian Harewood and Tom Keefer, uppingtheanti.org. July 22, 2003.

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• We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.

  Marianne Williamson

  Giving Up, Pain, Responsibility

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• It is no longer acceptable to ignore the suffering, and designers must take responsibility for the way that their fur is produced.

  Twiggy

  Responsibility, Suffering, Fur

  "Twiggy slams designers for using 'intolerably cruel' fur in London Fashion Week collections". www.dailymail.co.uk. February 24, 2010.

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• I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness.

  Louise Hay

  Responsibility, Law, People

  Louise L. Hay (2004). “I Can Do It: How to Use Affirmations to Change Your Life”, p.14, Hay House, Inc

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• When you find a man who knows his job and is willing to take responsibility, keep out of his way and don't bother him with unnecessary supervision. What you may think is cooperation is nothing but interference.

  Thomas Dreier

  Jobs, Responsibility, Men

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• Karma means ultimate responsibility. You even take responsibility for your genetics.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Karma

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• I will describe the choices I made, continue to take responsibility for my decisions, and express my remorse to Judge Salas and the public. I am heartbroken that this is affecting my family - especially my four young daughters, who mean more to me than anything in the world.

  Teresa Giudice

  Heartbroken, Daughter, Mean

  "Teresa and Joe Giudice to continue filming 'Real Housewives' until sentencing", www.foxnews.com. March 5, 2014.

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• In some ways, I saw the garden as a metaphor for certain aspects of my life. A leader must also tend his garden; he, too, plants seeds, and then watches, cultivates, and harvests the results. Like the gardener, a leader must take responsibility for what he cultivates; he must mind his work, try to repel enemies, preserve what can be preserved, and eliminate what cannot succeed.

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Garden, Leader

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