Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 6

• here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility.

  Wayne Dyer

  Responsibility, Self, Reason

  "A Conversation with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Ellen Mahoney, www.drwaynedyer.com. September 2009.

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• Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

  Heidi Julavits

  Responsibility, Mind, Scrapbooking

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have to take responsibility for ourselves and get tested to know our status, and spread the word.

  Rihanna

  Responsibility, Race, Hiv

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• We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

  Cecily McMillan

  Mean, Responsibility, Democracy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Christian, Responsibility, Home

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Champions take responsibility.

  Billie Jean King

  Responsibility, Champion

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• God has put a dream inside you. It's yours, and no one else's. It declares your uniqueness. It holds your potential. Only you can birth it. Only you can live it. Not to discover it, take responsibility for it, and act upon it is to negatively affect yourself as well as all those who would benefit from your dream.

  John C. Maxwell

  Dream, Responsibility, Benefits

  John C. Maxwell (2011). “Put Your Dream to the Test: 10 Questions that Will Help You See It and Seize It”, p.20, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Tired, Responsibility

  "Obama hails return to PAYGO" by Josh Gerstein, www.politico.com. February 13, 2010.

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• Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

  Radhanath Swami

  Mean, Responsibility, Thinking

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• When you take responsibility over others you have to be actually Selfless.

  Radhanath Swami

  Responsibility, Selfless

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• People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.

  Echo Bodine

  Spiritual, Responsibility, People

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

  Chris Bosh

  Responsibility, Getting Older, Roles

  Source: alanpaul.net

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• When you begin to create the life of your dreams - or maybe better stated, when you begin to live the life that God dreams for you - you take responsibility to prepare for the future.

  Erwin McManus

  Dream, Live Life, Responsibility

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2008). “Wide Awake: The Future Is Waiting Within You”, p.179, Thomas Nelson

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• But remember this: in the final analysis, you can believe in your dream, you can be taught, supported, motivated, and loved by others, but ultimately, your success depends on you. You must take responsibility for your body, your mind, and for your character.

  Mike Schmidt

  Dream, Believe, Character

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• The only industries that function well are the industries that take responsibility for training. The Japanese, you know, assume that when you first come to work you know absolutely nothing. School isn't preparation for work and never was.

  Peter Drucker

  School, Responsibility, Preparation

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• Leadership is the behavior each of us exerts when we take responsibility for our actions and their consequences.

  John Baldoni

  Responsibility, Our Actions, Behavior

  John Baldoni (2000). “180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk”, p.48, The Walk The Talk Company

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• I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.

  Jerome Kerviel

  Responsibility, Want, Action

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I see a tough time for our cricket. Senior players will establish records and go home, but our cricket will struggle. Young players aren't playing with the freedom that they should enjoy. The selectors and the cricket board should take responsibility for that.

  Arjuna Ranatunga

  Senior, Struggle, Home

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• I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

  Marilyn Manson

  Responsibility, Thinking, People

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• Whether in the workplace or in personal relationships, success belongs to those who are willing to take responsibility for attaining their desires-those who respond to life actively rather than passively.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Success, Responsibility, Desire

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• People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Character, Responsibility, Fate

  Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1994). “Essential Turgenev”, p.184, Northwestern University Press

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• We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

  Gabor Mate

  Responsibility, Our World, Mind

  Gabor Mate, M.D. (2009). “In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction”, p.396, Knopf Canada

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• If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out!

  Loren Cunningham

  Motivation, Inspiration, 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 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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