Quotes About Responsibility For Actions

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

Edwin Louis Cole

#2. To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Bruce Lee

#3. She'd been around long enough to know that it was a rare man who fully accepted responsibility for his actions, who didn't offer any excuses.

Ilona Andrews

#4. 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

#5. Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.

Anonymous

#6. I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

Lisa Unger

#7. The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

Kenneth Rexroth

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Jeanette Jenkins

#11. Every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.

Tom Robbins

#12. A bad life doesn't justify bad behavior. It's time to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for your own actions. You have control of your life from here.

Blaque Diamond

#13. Actions have consequences. Ignorance about the nature of those actions does not free a person from responsibility for the consequences. (28)

Stephen Dobyns

#14. 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

#15. Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#16. I think the rule should be that if we're going to take actions overseas that result in the deaths of people, the United States should take responsibility for that.

John O. Brennan

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

Michael Vick

#18. 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

#19. I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

Ron Moody

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

Steve Maraboli

#21. Responsibility for the consequences of actions is not the price of freedom, but one of its rewards.

Charles Murray

#22. The nature of encounter operations required of the commanders limitless initiative and constant readiness to take the responsibility for military actions.

Georgy Zhukov

#23. The binding factor between knowing something and doing it is "passion". When your passion is concentrated in what you know, your work output will bind well.

Israelmore Ayivor

#24. I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.

Concha Buika

#25. Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

Frank Herbert

#26. Personal Responsibility is an act of being responsible for results and consequences of your decisions, actions and in-actions in a given situation or circumstance.

Sunday Adelaja

#27. I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Enoch Powell

#28. 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

#29. Never blame someone else for your problem. You are your problem.

Debasish Mridha

#30. When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.

Ted Turner

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

Hubert Selby Jr.

#32. I think one must take responsibility for one's actions and one's decisions. But one should never take
one should never assume that everything that happens for the good is achieved by one's self alone.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#33. When nothing is done, nothing is won!

Israelmore Ayivor

#34. Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.

Eric Thomas

#35. I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me.

Ken Keyes Jr.

#36. 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

#37. I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

John Rowland

#38. We are responsible for our actions. But we must battle for sufficient time in our own lives to bring value to our existence.

Fennel Hudson

#39. That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.

Michael Robotham

#40. It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day

Thomas Narofsky

#41. Empowerment is being aware that there is no one to blame for my choices and actions; that I have a personal choice and responsibility for my life.

Steve Maraboli

#42. Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

Carlos Castaneda

#43. In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions..

Don Henley

#44. We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us-singly and individually-takes responsibility for our actions.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

#45. You are no more responsible for what that man said than I am. You cannot take the blame for another's actions.

Kristi Ann Hunter

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

Denis Waitley

#47. Prosperity comes from leaving people free in a legal system that respects their persons and property so they can pursue their dreams while taking responsibility for their actions.

John Stossel

#48. If you sincerely love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions.

Matthew Donnelly

#49. Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.

Dee Dee Artner

#50. Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

Marianne Williamson

#51. There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Derek Jeter

#52. Because we bear responsibility for our own actions alone. Not for anyone else's.

Tess Gerritsen

#53. I love my son. I love my kids, my family, Like I said after I took the misdemeanor plea, I take full responsibility for my actions.

Adrian Peterson

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. Good morning, baby. You know that the government has a responsibility for their own actions.

Zechariah Barrett

#57. A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23

Philip G. Zimbardo

#58. Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.

Criss Jami

#59. Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them
who answer for them.

William Bennett

#60. And I take full responsibility for my actions and whatever consequences my peers see fit.

Kenneth Williams

#61. The voluntary relinquishing of responsibility for our lives and our actions is one of the greatest enemies of our time.

Genesis P-Orridge

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

#63. Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

Jalal Talabani

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

Richard L. Evans

#65. In the American oligarchy, the President is a temporary chairman of the board who is there to take responsibility for actions decided in private sessions. He is there to sell policy more than to make it.

Diana Johnstone

#66. The real American ideal of cool which is building businesses, protecting freedom at home and abroad, taking responsibility for your actions, and leaving other people alone to live as they damn well please.

Greg Gutfeld

#67. There's a huge difference for taking responsibility for one's actions, and taking credit, and in this scenario I think we need to give credit where credit is due. I won't take responsibility for my teacher's drinking problem, but I will take credit for it.

Benjamin Tomes

#68. No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners. We are not to blame for the actions of our ancestors. We can only try to be the best we can, no matter what our heritage, to strive for a better future for all.

Diana Peterfreund

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

Stephen Richards

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

John Baldoni

#71. the psychopath will speak of himself in grandiose terms while blaming others and taking absolutely no responsibility for his actions.

Lillian Glass

#72. No one can become successful for you. It takes personal definitions, personal decisions, personal convictions, personal actions and personal responsibility to succeed in life.

Archibald Marwizi

#73. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#74. If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Holly Lisle

#75. A person can't heal as long as they are deflecting and blaming. One must accept responsibility for their own actions and make the shift necessary for growth.

Sanjo Jendayi

#76. Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Stanley Schmidt

#77. I can't change the past, I can only walk into my future with eyes wide open, taking responsibility for myself and my actions.

Elle Casey

#78. 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

#79. Freedom cannot simply mean doing whatever strikes you at the moment: that way you're a slave to any whim or passing fancy. Real freedom involves control over your life as a whole, learning to make plans and promises and decisions, to take responsibility for your actions' consequences.

Susan Neiman

#80. Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.

Eric Schneiderman

#81. When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.

Kelley Armstrong

#82. One has a moral obligation to take responsibility for one's actions, and that includes one's words and silences, yes, one's silences, because silences rise to heaven too, and God hears them, and only God understands and judges them, so one must be very careful with one's silences.

Roberto Bolano

#83. You can't expect to be who God wanted you to be if you don't improve on upon your talents, abilities, and actions to the peak of the potentials you carry.

Israelmore Ayivor

#84. Results show that just one year of chess tuition will improve a student's learning abilities, concentration, application, sense of logic, self-discipline, respect, behavior and the ability to take responsibility for his/her own actions.

Garry Kasparov

#85. I know that being seen as a role model means taking responsibility for all my actions. I am human, and of course, sometimes I make mistakes. But I promise that when I fall, I get back up.

Jennifer Lopez

#86. A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

John Stuart Mill

#87. It's about doing the right thing even if you don't want to do it. About taking responsibility for your actions ... it's about letting go when you really, really want to hold on so bad.

Alex Flinn

#88. Be responsible. Your abilities ensure that you respond to the responsibilities that you encounter daily.

Israelmore Ayivor

#89. Nothing worse than a man who makes excuses, blames others, and refuses responsibility for his own actions. No doubt there were real experiences that underlined the worthlessness of excuse makers for these men.

James MacDonald

#90. Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

Tara Brach

#91. If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself. Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else, for each one should carry his own load [responsibility] (Galatians 6:3-5).

Myles Munroe

#92. He said the truth is the truth, and people should take responsibility for their own actions, which is right.

Diana Gabaldon

#93. I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.

Cheryl Ladd

#94. You are
never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.

Miguel Ruiz

#95. Modern Western democracies no longer engage in such despotic assaults on freedom, Instead, they deprive people of liberty indirectly, by relieving them of responsibility for their own (allegedly self-injurious) actions and calling the intervention treatment.

Thomas Szasz

#96. If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take responsibility for their actions or for changing their class and station in life.

Gregory Maguire

#97. There is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils
the fear speaks for itself, the comfort comes from being able to absolve oneself of responsibility for one's actions.

Iain Banks

#98. there was a greater likelihood that individuals who committed crimes within the Nazi system would take personal responsibility for their actions, than there was that war criminals who served Stalin or Hirohito would take such responsibility.

Laurence Rees

#99. We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

Tom Hiddleston

#100. A man cannot get rid of the responsibility, for his own actions.

Leo Tolstoy