Accept Responsibility Quotes

#1. I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions.

Tim Gunn

#2. I take a backseat to no one in my affection, respect and devotion to veterans. And I will not accept from Senator Obama, who did not feel it was his responsibility to serve our country in uniform, any lectures on my regard for those who did.

John McCain

#3. Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you.

Paul Clitheroe

#4. Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

#5. You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life.

Marshall Sylver

#6. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.

Frank Herbert

#7. Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

Mitt Romney

#8. I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does.

Ellen Glasgow

#9. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Maya Angelou

#10. Leaders inspire accountability through their ability to accept responsibility before they place blame.

Courtney Lynch

#11. If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

Leonard Jacobson

#12. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Leo Buscaglia

#13. There is a terrible beauty to isolation. You don't have to accept responsibility for others, or live up to their expectations. You could dip your toe into humanity's maelstrom from time to time, or sit on the river bank and observe.

Celia Stander

#14. If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander.

Mary McLeod Bethune

#15. If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure.

Seth Godin

#16. As a man, I have to accept responsibility for all the pain I've ever caused her and Rose'.

Mz. Lady P

#17. As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

Martin Winterkorn

#18. I'm not attempting to be a role model but I accept that roles I've played put me in that position. I don't feel a huge responsibility as an actress to put my young fan base first.

Anne Hathaway

#19. I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

Karl Donitz

#20. To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you

Luke Wood

#21. The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Roy L. Smith

#22. While we should never walk around feeling guilty for people's affliction (after all, it's the devil that is oppressing them, not us!) we must nonetheless accept the responsibility to grow up into the image of Christ, so that Jesus is able to express Himself through us in fullness.

Andy Hayner

#23. The knowledge that change can be frightening, that responsibility can, but that the answer to that is not refusing to change or to accept responsibility.

Jo Walton

#24. I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.

David Frye

#25. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

John F. Kennedy

#26. Your first step in taking responsibility is to quit blaming others and quit blaming the world. You must accept that opportunity is everywhere. Opportunity is all the time. It does not disappear in the difficult times, in fact it's even greater.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#27. Accept the responsibility of being yourself as you are, with all that is good and with all that is bad, with all that is beautiful and that which is not beautiful. In that acceptance a transcendence happens and one becomes free.

Rajneesh

#28. As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces.

Tipper Gore

#29. Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility.

John M Swomley

#30. The role of the CEO is to enable people to excel, help them discover their own wisdom, engage themselves entirely in their work, and accept responsibility for making change. (164)

Vineet Nayar

#31. [W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

Camille Paglia

#32. They wish not to become adult - not to have to accept our kind of responsibility. And yet like all children, they want to be thought grown up, and free to do what they think are grown up things. And that leads sometimes to tragedy and sometimes to the aftermath of tragedy.

Agatha Christie

#33. I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility.

Dexter Fletcher

#34. The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

Billie Jean King

#35. I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions.

Michael Vick

#36. And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it.

John Bigelow

#37. Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

Steve Maraboli

#38. There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind.

Jane Velez-Mitchell

#39. In order to truly forgive oneself, one must either explicitly or implicitly acknowledge that one's behavior was wrong and accept responsibility or blame for such behavior. Without these elements, self-forgiveness is irrelevant and pseudo self-forgiveness becomes likely.

Desmond Tutu

#40. Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations.

Thom S. Rainer

#41. The immortals are those who accept the greater responsibility of attending to the needs of the world not just their families.

N.K.David

#42. You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.

Zig Ziglar

#43. From this moment forward, I will accept responsibility for my past. I understand that the beginning of wisdom is to accept the responsibility for my own problems and that by accepting responsibility for my past, I free myself to move into a bigger, brighter future of my own choosing.

Andy Andrews

#44. What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Martin Sheen

#45. I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive.

Jane Byrne

#46. When you accept a position of responsibility, be responsible to the position.

Karen Larson-Reuter

#47. If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

Pat Summitt

#48. It is our responsibility to discover our talents, to accept them as from God, to develop them through education and training, and to use them for His glory.

J. Grant Howard

#49. Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Orrin Woodward

#50. It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

David Gower

#51. Would it perturb you to see things as they are? To gaze at the world tranquilly and accept responsibility for your gaze, whatever it might see?

Jean Genet

#52. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Hubert Selby Jr.

#53. In my life, I have learned to accept personal responsibility for my circumstances and that acceptance has given me the power to change them."
~Elissa Gabrielle

Elissa Gabrielle

#54. When you take responsibility for your actions, accept that life isn't fair, get rid of excuses, become a doer, and develop an abundance mentality, you will break down many of the barriers keeping you from true success. You will be well on the way to maximizing the potential that God has given you.

Tommy Newberry

#55. 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

#56. To what extent, in other words, we may ask, is the imagining of God as having expelled the humans a misunderstanding of our own failure to keep commandments and accept infinite responsibility for the other individual, an alternative that, if undertaken, changes everything?

Sandor Goodhart

#57. When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else.

Maya Angelou

#58. In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

J.L. Austin

#59. As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.

Leo Buscaglia

#60. Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain."

Aleksandar Hemon

#61. Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility ... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have ... is the ability to take on responsibility.

Michael Korda

#62. One of the most serious human defects in all ages is procrastination, an unwillingness to accept personal responsibilities now.

Spencer W. Kimball

#63. What people need to accept is that it is there responsibility to communicate what they need and what they feel, and to realize that they cannot expect someone else magically to make them happy. People want to be made happy, instead of making themselves happy

Richard Madsen

#64. Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.

Tom Brady

#65. And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility.

Daniel Greenberg

#66. One exemplary act may affect one life, or even millions of lives. All those who set standards for themselves, who strengthen the bonds of community, who do their work creditably and accept individual responsibility, are building the common future.

John W. Gardner

#67. You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Denis Waitley

#68. Those who broadcast your messy failures are the same people who will telecast your mass fortunes. But this can only happen when you accept your responsibility to turn your life around!

Israelmore Ayivor

#69. I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility.

Ernest Istook

#70. My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.

Samuel Beckett

#71. Be your own worst critic.
When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.

Paul Arden

#72. I own the responsibility for determining my own value. I do not expect anyone else to make me feel valued and important. That must come from inside me. Once I know my value is set and absolute, I can accept love and validation from others, and believe it.

Kimberly Giles

#73. If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public.

Thomas Francis Jr.

#74. There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them

Denis Waitley

#75. Mma Ramotswe had been understanding. Men who sired children and then failed to accept responsibility for them were anathema to her, and she reserved particular disapproval for those who then completely disappeared. She

Alexander McCall Smith

#76. Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

John Foster Dulles

#77. None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility.

Thomas Watson Jr.

#78. [ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226

Stephanie Dowrick

#79. Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.

Stephen R. Covey

#80. Everything that you have in your life, your universe, you attracted it. Accept responsibility and believe that everything that has come to your life is a result of your actions.

Joe Casanova

#81. difference between a child and an adult is not years, rather it's a willingness to accept responsibility, to be responsible for one's own actions.

Louis L'Amour

#82. Manufacturers must accept responsibility for their customers' safety.

Eric Schneiderman

#83. Social scientists have determined that we accept inner responsibility for a behavior when we think we have chosen to perform it in the absence of strong outside pressures. A

Robert B. Cialdini

#84. I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes.

Chuck Feeney

#85. Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

Iyanla Vanzant

#86. We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

Ed Miliband

#87. It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises

Jonathon Porritt

#88. The most important contribution you can make to your company is to be a leader, accept responsibility for results, and dare to go forward.

Brian Tracy

#89. As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.

Sophia Loren

#90. My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact.

Nigel S. Wright

#91. The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity's relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.

Jacque Fresco

#92. The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer
When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.

Thomas Paine

#93. It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#94. We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#95. It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle.

Paulo Freire

#96. Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

Richard L. Evans

#97. May we graciously accept our responsibility.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#98. You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words.

Lynn Flewelling

#99. I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.

Oliver North

#100. You steadily grow into becoming your best as you choose to be accountable and accept responsibility for improvement.

Steve Shallenberger