Not Accepting Responsibility Quotes

#1. I was just asked to go somewhere. I said, "I can't. I have to stay home. Gayle's sick." Clearly, I was not accepting responsibility for my actions. Next time I want to be more honest and state that I do what I do because I want to do it.

Hugh Prather

#2. For me, love is not about froufrou New Age-ism. It's about a way of living and honoring the interconnectedness of life and accepting our responsibility and our power to change the world for the better.

Julia Butterfly Hill

#3. When accepting a responsibility, imagine that it's something that you'll have to do next week. That way you don't agree to something just because it seems so far off that it doesn't seem onerous.

Gretchen Rubin

#4. For Republicans, accepting responsibility means accepting punishment; for Democrats, it means only an admission of error and a suggestion they'll do better in the future. This double standard must end.

Monica Crowley

#5. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.

Stephen Richards

#6. There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

Buzz Aldrin

#7. You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

Chogyam Trungpa

#8. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#9. The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

Neal Boortz

#10. The problem of education in a democratic society is to do away with ... dualism and to construct a course of studies which makes thought a guide of free practice for all and which makes leisure a reward of accepting responsibility for service, rather than a state of exemption from it.

John Dewey

#11. Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.

Kimberlee Roth

#12. We can have peace and brotherly love by accepting our responsibility to preserve freedom.

Ronald Reagan

#13. When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.

Zig Ziglar

#14. Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions.

Meg Rosoff

#15. There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Haile Selassie

#16. Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

Iyanla Vanzant

#17. The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

M. Scott Peck

#18. Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism.

Rush Limbaugh

#19. When you take a position, you have to accept responsibilities.

Radhanath Swami

#20. I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?

Martin Firrell

#21. I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended.

Amy Pascal

#22. Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood.

Brian Tracy

#23. Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases.

Andrew Saul

#24. In the service, especially in the complicated situation such as this, it is difficult not to say impossible, to follow any one straight path without risking mistakes and without accepting
responsibility, but once a path seems to be the right one I must follow it, happen what may.

Leo Tolstoy

#25. It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures ... that is devishly hard!

Vaclav Havel

#26. I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.

Howard Schultz

#27. No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Napoleon Hill

#28. Personal dignity begins by accepting responsibility for our actions, acting humbly, and extending compassion to other people. Personal humility requires choosing living with quietness of the heart over living in the depths of animosity, despair, and discord.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#29. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Edwin Louis Cole

#30. The first step to truly living a good and fearless life, is accepting responsibility for your actions. Accepting what part you had in any situation. Difficult, to say the least, but liberating.

Jann Arden

#31. Transmit your vision emotionally by gaining credibility, demonstrating passion, establishing relationships and communicating a felt need. Transmit it logically by confronting reality, formulating strategy, accepting responsibility, celebrating victory and learning from defeat.

John C. Maxwell

#32. Those who choose love - daring to feel to the depths of being, accepting responsibility for their actions, and seeking a purpose in life - will find that the world of significant living will unfold its cleverly concealed presence.

Barbara Marciniak

#33. We can be a victim or a creator. One takes negative memories to use as a crutch, remain the same and blame. The latter takes negative memories accepting responsibility for choosing the situation to learn, evolve and change.

Juls Amor

#34. I begin my reign with profound emotion at the honour of accepting the Crown, aware of the responsibility it entails and with the greatest hope for the future of Spain.

King Felipe VI

#35. Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

Ralph Marston

#36. Integrity is fundamental to being men. Integrity means being truthful, but it also means accepting responsibility and honoring commitments and covenants.

D. Todd Christofferson

#37. The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

Steve Maraboli

#38. But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

Jeb Bush

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

Michael Vick

#40. Leadership is about taking charge and influencing others to follow your vision. It's about going against the odds and accepting responsibility for the outcomes along the way

Robin Crow

#41. The very act of accepting responsibility short-circuits and cancels out any negative emotions you may be experiencing.

Brian Tracy

#42. The solution to the feral cats that already exist is the one no one wants to hear: accepting the fact that feral cats will live among us, and taking responsibility for controlling their numbers by trapping, neutering, and returning them to their outdoor territories.

Denise Flaim

#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. I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

Maya Angelou

#46. I never got married anyway, because I wasn't particularly keen on accepting the responsibility of another person.

Jimmy Savile

#47. It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences.

Iyanla Vanzant

#48. To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

David Cottrell

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

Thomas Francis Jr.

#50. Accepting responsibility is the fulcrum point for succeeding at anything.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#51. It is not what we believe, but why we believe it. Moral responsibility lies in diligently weighing the evidence. We must actively doubt; we have to scrutinize our views, not take them on trust. No virtue attached to blindly accepting orthodoxy, however 'venerable' ...

Thomas Henry Huxley

#52. If you are working with authors, you are accepting a great responsibility and must tread very carefully. The author's work is a part of herself, a creative endeavor she has poured her heart and soul into. Protecting and nurturing that work and the author is part of the job of a publisher.

Terena Scott