Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 19

• People over-focus on teachers as an excuse to avoid their own life, and that way they fail to take responsibility for themselves. They have this feeling that the teacher will just take care of them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhist, Responsibility

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• I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.

  Kenneth Lay

  Responsibility, Economy, Happened

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• We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.

  Charles Evers

  Funny, Jobs, Responsibility

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• I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.

  Stuart Symington

  Responsibility, Cutting, Years

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• In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the US and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East.

  Dominique de Villepin

  Responsibility, Europe, Middle East

  Interview with John Thornhill, Peggy Hollinger and Martin Arnold, www.ft.com. February 2, 2007.

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• Europe can only hold together and stand together, which is very important in times of migration challenges, terrorism challenges, if each country takes responsibility for itself.

  Angela Merkel

  Country, Responsibility, Europe

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'd been an actor my whole life, since I was a kid. And then, I quit for awhile and went to university. When I wanted to start acting again, I couldn't get a job, and that was really depressing. So, I realized, at that time, that I have to take responsibility for my own creativity.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Depressing, Jobs, Creativity

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• If there's anything about someone's life that's important enough to make a movie about it, I have to take responsibility to get all of it right. It's a huge responsibility.

  Russell Crowe

  Responsibility, Important, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't had an easy life, but at some point ,you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

  Aimee Mullins

  Dream, Responsibility, People

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• What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Believe, Responsibility

  Fifth Presidential State of the Union, delivered 28 January 2014

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• Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.

  Steve Jobs

  Responsibility, Apples, World

  "Online Extra: Steve Jobs: 'It Feels Good'". Interview with Peter Burrows, www.bloomberg.com. February 2, 2004.

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• We are all in situations of our own choosing.  Our thinking creates a pathway to success or failure.  By disclaiming responsibility for our present, we crush the prospect of an incredible future that might have been ours.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Crush, Responsibility

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.27, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The words It's not my fault! should never again come from your mouth.  The words It's not my fault! have been symbolically written on the gravestones of unsuccessful people ever since Eve took her first bite of the apple.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Success, Responsibility

  Andy Andrews (2004). “The Young Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions That Determine Personal Success”, p.16, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.

  Eric Shinseki

  Leadership, Integrity, Health

  "Shinseki resigns, but will that improve things at VA hospitals?" by Tom Cohen, Drew Griffin, Scott Bronstein, Nelli Black, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2014.

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• The "female culture" has shifted more rapidly than the "male culture"; the image of the go-get 'em woman has yet to be fully matched by the image of the let's take-care-of-the-kids- together man. More important, over the last thirty years, men's underlying feelings about taking responsibility at home have changed much less than women's feelings have changed about forging some kind of identity at work.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Women, Home, Kids

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• Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.

  Benjamin Graham

  Responsibility, Intelligent, Investing

  Benjamin Graham (1965). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”, p.207, Prabhat Prakashan

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• We need a revolution in the West: not violent overthrow, but a willingness to take responsibility for the course of history being set forth in our names. We need a revolution determined to activate broad, inclusive social change.

  Christina Baldwin

  Peace, Responsibility, Names

  Christina Baldwin (2009). “Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture”, p.22, Bantam

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• It is not nearly so important how well a message is received as how well it is sent. You cannot take responsibility for how well another accepts your truth; you can only ensure how well it is communicated. And by how well, I don't mean merely how clearly; I mean how lovingly, how compassionately, how sensitively, how courageously, and how completely.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Mean, Responsibility, Important

  Neale Donald Walsch (2005). “The Complete Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.216, Penguin

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• Take responsibility and make a relationship the best it can be. We're all afraid of being hurt. Get rid of that fear. Be in the moment and enjoy the relationship - or you'll ruin it.

  Moran Atias

  Hurt, Responsibility, Ruins

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• To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.

  Debbie Ford

  Letting Go, Hurt, Pain

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• A good woman is one who loves passionately, has guts, seriousness and passionate convictions, takes responsibility, and shapes society.

  Betty Friedan

  Responsibility, Good Woman, Passionate

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• There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Responsibility, Race

  "Huckabee: Muslim Can Be President; Obama 'Pretends to Be' Christian, Makes Living Out Faith Difficult" by Samuel Smith, www.christianpost.com. September 23, 2015.

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• It's so much easier to get high than how scary it must be to see who you actually are and take responsibility for it. Denial is an easy place to live in.

  Rosario Dawson

  Responsibility, Scary, Denial

  "In her own words: Rosario Dawson talks about playing Vanessa Hudgens’ drug-addled mother in 'Gimme Shelter'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. January 2014.

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• I'm attracted to the garden, without a doubt, but I always try and image the wolf that's there, too. And that wolf would be us. It's not that we're malevolent or evil - we're marvelous, fantastic, tool-bearing beings and capable of so much - but there are so many of us, and we don't tend to take responsibility for what we do.

  Michael Light

  Responsibility, Garden, Evil

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Responsibility

  "Jennifer Lawrence: Natural Talent". Stylist Interview, www.stylist.co.uk.

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