Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 13

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• You have a teenager who desperately wants to separate...If you don't have a career, these New Domesticity types are likely to find themselves standing in the kitchen with all these domestic skills and no outlet for them, no way to earn a living.... [A]t that point your kids are not thanking you for having made the hand-pureed baby food and for giving them homemade cookies. They don't feel you've done them a big favor; they say, "Why didn't she ever grow up and take responsibility for her own life?"

  Emily Matchar

  Baby, Growing Up, Teenager

  Emily Matchar (2015). “Homeward Bound: Why Women Are Embracing the New Domesticity”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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• But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.

  David Blunkett

  Responsibility, Perception, Take Me

  "Full text: Blunkett's resignation statement", www.theguardian.com. December 15, 2004.

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• Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

  Dennis Prager

  Responsibility, Wings, Ideas

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• No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

  Gloria Steinem

  Responsibility, Decision, Flags

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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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• 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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• There are many examples of female leaders who are not afraid to take responsibility and openly face the challenges in the worst situations.

  Dalia Grybauskaite

  Responsibility, Worst Situation, Leader

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is something wonderful about coming to terms with time - that it is finite. You want to have as much joy in your life as possible, and you take responsibility for your own joy.

  Diane Lane

  Responsibility, Joy, Want

  "Gorgeous At Any Age". Interview with Carole Radziwill, www.glamour.com. August 31, 2008.

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• Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.

  Lara Logan

  Mistake, Responsibility, Likes

  Source: deadline.com

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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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• First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

  Samantha Power

  Mistake, Responsibility

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• According to Buddhism, each person is a Buddha who has forgotten their original nature.  If we in the pampered West, having grown up with so many advantages, could not claim our own health and our agency, preferring to see ourselves as helpless victims, then who would do it?  Who would take responsibility for the world?

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Responsibility, Buddhism, Agency

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2007). “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl”, p.280, Penguin

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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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• It is a misuse of our power to take responsibility for solving problems that belong to others.

  Peter Block

  Responsibility, Problem, Misuse

  Peter Block (1996). “Stewardship: Choosing Service Over Self Interest”, p.72, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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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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• 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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• Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sports, Running, Mistake

  "Ego and Mouth". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2008.

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