Taking Responsibility Quotes - Page 9

• Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.

  Ai Weiwei

  Responsibility

  Princeton University Press @PrincetonUPress, twitter.com. July 23, 2015.

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• One of the most powerful things you can do is take responsibility for your life. Your choices. Your actions. Your Life.

  Jeanette Jenkins

  Powerful, Responsibility, Choices

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

  Laura Berman

  Responsibility, Waiting, Miracle

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• Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.

  Mary Pipher

  Moving, Mean, Responsibility

  Mary Pipher (2009). “Letters to a Young Therapist: Stories of Hope and Healing”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• By perceiving ourselves as part of the river, we take responsibility for the river as a whole.

  Vaclav Havel

  Responsibility, Rivers, Whole

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• I often say to people that producing is the best paid form of cowardice. When you produce things you almost always get credit, if it's a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it's not! You don't really take responsibility for your work.

  Brian Eno

  Responsibility, People, Credit

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 2, 2009.

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• People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

  Seth Godin

  Responsibility, People, Given

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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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• Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

  Jalal Talabani

  Responsibility, Action, Humans

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• Compassion is not sympathy. Compassion is mercy. It is a commitment to take responsibility for the suffering of others.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Commitment, Responsibility, Compassion

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• If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Responsibility, Waiting

  "‘Be Responsible for Your Own Life,’ Says Oprah". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 31, 2012.

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• Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing.

  Simon Sinek

  Responsibility, Wrong Things, Doing The Right Thing

  Twitter post from Sep 18, 2012

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• People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

  John C. Maxwell

  Mistake, Moving, Responsibility

  John C. Maxwell (2007). “Leadership Promises for Your Week”, p.88, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• You must take responsibility for removing I can't from your vocabulary.

  Jack Canfield

  Responsibility, Vocabulary, I Can

  Jack Canfield, Janet Switzer (2009). “The Success Principles(TM)”, p.42, Harper Collins

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• Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.

  Susan Jeffers

  Mean, Responsibility, Feelings

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• I'm not going to just take office in January, I'm going to take responsibility.

  Mitt Romney

  Responsibility, Office, January

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• The extent to which YOU take responsibility over something is the extent to which YOU take control over it.

  Adam Khoo

  Motivational, Responsibility, Take Control

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• For me, this is a familiar image - people in the organization ready and willing to do good work, wanting to contribute their ideas, ready to take responsibility, and leaders holding them back, insisting that they wait for decisions or instructions

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Responsibility, Organization, Ideas

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.77, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.

  Paula Rothenberg

  Moving, Responsibility, Names

  "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

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• 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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• 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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• We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all

  Nelson Mandela

  Responsibility, Hands, Giving

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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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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