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• Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.

  Brit Hume

  Responsibility, Blame, Loser

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• Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

  Madeleine Albright

  Responsibility, People, Succeed

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• There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives.

  Hillary Clinton

  Responsibility, Opportunity, Voice

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999). “Remarks and commentary by First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton--Vital voices, 1997-1999”

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• You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Believe, Responsibility, Adults

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• You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.

  Kim Kardashian

  Life, Success, Regret

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• The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

  Stephen Covey

  Life, Change, Responsibility

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• Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.

  Evan Bayh

  Mother, Children, Single Mom

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• Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

  Haruki Murakami

  Responsibility, Life Is, Persons

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “South Of The Border, West Of The Sun”, p.71, Random House

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• Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.

  Jane Goodall

  Responsibility, Play, Differences

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• Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

  Garry Kasparov

  Responsibility, Play, Chess

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• Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.

  Mike Krzyzewski

  Basketball, Responsibility, Winning

  "Duke of the Court". Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

  Dennis Prager

  Responsibility, Men, Civilization

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• We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Responsibility, Energy, Inventory

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• I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Responsibility, People

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• Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.

  Toni Morrison

  Responsibility, Leader, Being A Leader

  Toni Morrison, Danille Kathleen Taylor-Guthrie (1994). “Conversations with Toni Morrison”, p.259, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.

  Nicole Richie

  Responsibility, Years, Soul

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• Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Responsibility, Unhappy, Three

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.82, New World Library

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• Life unravels the way it does, and it has an effect on you, but you have to take responsibility for dealing with it.

  Shania Twain

  Responsibility, Way, Doe

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

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• One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pain, Responsibility, People

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• If everyone took personal responsibility for their animals, we wouldn't have a lot of the animal problems that we do. I'm a big spay-and-neuter supporter. Don't have babies if you're not going to take care of those babies. We don't need more. We just need to take care of the ones we have. Take responsibility and breathe kindness.

  Betty White

  Baby, Kindness, Responsibility

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

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• All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

  Deborah Harkness

  Children, Responsibility, Land

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• When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.

  Jay Asher

  Bullying, Responsibility, People

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.53, Penguin

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• Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being in control is taking responsibility for how you feel. This means not just admitting to uncomfortable feelings but then examining your circumstances to see what can be done to change these feelings at the source.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Mean, Responsibility, Past

  Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.17, Macmillan

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• lf you’re going to deal with reality, you’re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an individual. If you wanna grow up, which most people don’t, the thing to do is take responsibility for your own reality and deal with it on your own terms. Don’t expect that because you pay some money to somebody else or take a pledge or join a club or run down the street or wear a special bunch of clothes or play a certain sport or even drink Perrier water, it’s going to take care of everything for you.

  Frank Zappa

  Sports, Running, Growing Up

  Interview with Dave Rothman in Oui magazine, April, 1979.

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• We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

  Vladimir Putin

  Strength, Strong, Responsibility

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