Top 100 Quotes About Take Responsibility
#1. I can't explain the lack of integrity among some of the leaders of our health care facilities. This is something I rarely encountered during 38 years in uniform. And so I will not defend it because it is indefensible. But I can take responsibility for it and I do.
Eric Shinseki
#2. 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
#3. Until we all start to take responsibility, until we do all we can to improve the character of our communities, we'll never break the cycle of violence and indifference.
Carrie P. Meek
#4. Stop talking about how you care about people. Show me something. Show me a policy. Show me a policy where you take responsibility.
Joe Biden
#5. When you love yourself, you don't fear to take responsibility of life.
Debasish Mridha
#6. But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.
David Blunkett
#7. She taught me only how to need to be taken care of.
I was here because I needed to learn to take responsibility for making my own decisions - to earn my own trust.
Aspen Matis
#8. The philosophy is that you push the power of decision making out to the periphery and away from the center. You give people the room to adapt, based on their experience and expertise. All you ask is that they talk to one another and take responsibility. That is what works.
Atul Gawande
#9. 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
#10. Taking responsibility for your circumstances. Take responsibility. Be strong enough to admit your wrongs, ask for forgiveness, and think of constructive solutions to solve your problems.
Kevin J. Donaldson
#11. We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
Paul Ryan
#12. I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.
Maya Angelou
#13. Losing some money is an inevitable part of investing, and there's nothing you can do to prevent it. But to be an intelligent investor, you must take responsibility for ensuring that you never lose most or all of your money.
Benjamin Graham
#14. It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.
Azar Nafisi
#15. 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
#16. Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
Mike Krzyzewski
#17. Other Christians may try to tell you what your values should be, but they are not perfect. You must take responsibility for your own choices.
Henry Cloud
#18. Technically it was FLOTUS's job to extend the invitations, but the idea that Mrs. Clinton would take responsibility for someone under her command? Laughable. I surely never saw it.
Gary J. Byrne
#19. Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.
Steve Jobs
#20. 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
#21. If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.
Nick O'Donohoe
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. Just as we demand that people take responsibility for their actions, we as a society must take responsibility for fighting injustice.
Eric Schneiderman
#25. 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
#26. So I'm not allowed to take responsibility for the whole world, but you are, huh?
Kees felt the corners of his mouth twitch and his heart squeeze and then melt ...
I am bigger, he growled.
And she laughed.
Christine Warren
#27. If we are able to take responsibility for our own mind, then we can work with whatever life throws at us without resentment or blame, and with the curiosity and self-care that are necessary for mindfulness to develop in all aspects of life. On this basis, we can also help others.
Ethan Nichtern
#28. I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Story Musgrave
#30. Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.
Tyra Banks
#31. Always take responsibility for the social life of the people
Sunday Adelaja
#32. Leadership isn't something that people hand to you ... [i]t's a gradual process, one where you take responsibility years before you are given authority. And that's something we can teach.
Seth Godin
#33. Apple is the only company in the world that has all of that under one roof. We can invent a complete a solution that works - and take responsibility for it.
Steve Jobs
#34. Deftly engineered. McCarthy challenges us all - not just engineers - to take responsibility for the ways in which we all increasingly engineer the world.
Carl Mitcham
#35. Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky
#36. If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#37. Maybe he was overreacting ... Somehow you were meant to take responsibility, minute to minute, for deciding which events you would call manageable, now that none of them were.
Chris Cleave
#38. You should never take responsibility for more children than you can give attention to.
James Redfield
#39. once you take responsibility for your own life, and empower yourself to create a life you love, you can then begin to have impact on the lives of others - and on the world.
Boni Lonnsburry
#40. No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.
Gloria Steinem
#41. As soon as you take responsibility for your life, you can change the world.
Tom Basso
#42. Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.
Donald J. Trump
#43. Good governance depends on ability to take responsibility by both administration as well as people.
Narendra Modi
#45. Only you can take responsibility for your happiness..but you can't do it alone. It's the great paradox of being human.
Simon Sinek
#46. 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
#47. You must take responsibility for your own life and make full use of your gifts.
Joanne Guidoccio
#48. Commit to fitness and health. You only have one body and one life. Take responsibility of your health and live your best life.
Latorria Freeman
#49. The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.
Rachael Bermingham
#50. Each one of us matters, has a role to play, and makes a difference. Each one of us must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and love for living things around us, especially each other.
Jane Goodall
#51. I do not want you children to use my untimely death, or any setback that life may deliver, as an excuse not to take responsibility for yourselves.
Ethan Hawke
#52. I let it come to this, and I can only take responsibility for my own mistakes. Unfortunately, I've made a lot of them.
K.K. Allen
#53. Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being
Linda S. Reeves
#54. Los Angeles County government is a "Soviet-style system," with too many people only sort of in charge and no person sufficiently at the helm to take responsibility.
Zev Yaroslavsky
#55. and then you're (at times, it feels, aggressively) told that you're at fault and should take responsibility and action for This Here Problem? Holy . . . Like, I mean, holy shit, Bast.
Kaija Straumanis
#56. When you come across real talent, it is sometimes worth allowing them to create the structure in which they choose to labor. In nine cases out of ten, by inviting them to take responsibility and control for a new venture, you will motivate them to do great things.
Felix Dennis
#57. I have made a lot of tactical decisions that historians will look back and say: He shouldn't have done that. He shouldn't have made that decision. And I'll take responsibility for them. I'm human.
George W. Bush
#58. To encourage people to take responsibility for who they really are. And it is the only way to show respect for each person. Focusing on strengths is the storyline that explains all their efforts as managers.
Marcus Buckingham
#59. Giving someone the freedom to take responsibility releases resources that would otherwise remain concealed.
Jan Carlzon
#60. I was the first one to allow a projectile to come off of the stage and into the audience. And I kind of take responsibility for the mosh pit.
Gallagher
#61. All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine.
Jim Rohn
#62. Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.
Marianne Williamson
#64. 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
#65. If we abdicate responsibility for our choices, we may become angry, sometimes full of rage at others for running our lives, for telling us what to do. We need to take responsibility. We need to trust ourselves.
Melody Beattie
#66. In whatever way change comes, the important thing is to take responsibility for this moment. Then, life becomes cooperative.
Eckhart Tolle
#67. And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
Warren Farrell
#68. Don't make excuses; accept responsibility.
You must take responsibility for how you respond to everything that happens in your life; whether you cause it or not. Making excuses is a weak response!
Michelle Word Hollis
#69. To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.
Laurence Gartel
#70. Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Jim Rohn
#71. You're surrounded by other people all the time. And you have to take responsibility if you're the eldest or one of the older siblings, and you're constantly communicating in a way that perhaps you aren't if you're in a smaller family.
Harry West
#72. I think the black community is no different from any other community. We need to take responsibility for how we live together. We need to be personally responsible for keeping our streets clean, our schools safe, and our houses peaceful.
Pearl Cleage
#73. 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
#74. In the long term, it will be the human race that must take responsibility for the development of sustainable life-styles and economies that are not insistent on continuing growth and a throw away society.
David De Kretser
#75. Even if you are angry and you have reason to be angry, that doesn't give you license to be cruel. We have to take responsibility for ourselves and the way we act.
Christi Paul
#76. We need to take responsibility and educate people. That's why black folks don't like me. I always say it's our responsibility to make safe neighborhoods. It's our job to get them cleaned up.
Charles Evers
#77. Overcome your guilt, Kaladin. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself.' Protect, save, help - but know when to give up.
Brandon Sanderson
#78. My father was brought up in a theatrical background, just as I was, and his father instilled in him the need to do everything properly and take responsibility for money.
Sean Pertwee
#79. You have to take responsibility and become the architect of your own success by learning what it takes to navigate the twists and turns of a long career, because if you don't take responsibility for your own success, nothing will happen.
Martin Yate
#80. Always be the light. Do not wait for others to take responsibility
Sunday Adelaja
#81. This is what men must do. Their true job."
"What's that?"
"Take responsibility for what's theirs and let go the rest."
"Seems the trick, then, is figuring out what you can safely let go.
Lance Weller
#82. Winners take responsibility, losers blame others.
Brit Hume
#83. Fear is killing us, but true love can survive. If we cooperate, we can beat doubt. But first, rebuild trust. Take responsibility. Happiness is still free, though not always apparent when it's right in front of us. So keep calm, it's gonna get better.
Patrick Stump
#84. 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
#85. So you're positive the killer is a man."
"Yes, I think my gender can take responsibility for this one. Women don't cut out other women's hearts."
"We can.
Chris Bohjalian
#86. 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
#87. He pointed to the right and left. We are unfree, all of us. Only, that does not absolve us of responsibility. Despite our lack of freedom we constantly make decisions and we have to take responsibility for them and their consequences. And so, with every decision we take we become less free.
Milena Michiko Flasar
#88. In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.
Susan Estrich
#89. We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire.
Sam Owen
#90. My maxim is always this,' he once told a student, 'consider every step carefully in advance, but then, if you believe you can take responsibility for it, let nothing stop you.
Manjit Kumar
#91. An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.
Jan Carlzon
#92. Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.
Kami Garcia
#94. Normal people tend to do wrong, feel guilty, take responsibility, and atone. But dysfunctional people, tend to do wrong, justify what they did, blame others, and disrespect the victim.
Robert E. Baines Jr.
#95. I take responsibility for what happened at Enron, both good and bad. But I cannot take responsibility for criminal conduct that I was unaware of.
Kenneth Lay
#96. When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.
Jeff Olson
#97. Say what you say plainly, and then take responsibility for it.
Ai Weiwei
#98. So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead.
Eric Greitens
#99. Take responsibility for your anger and learn to deal with it - process it and bring closure to it, and that will relieve the pressure.
Joyce Meyer
#100. The only thing her mother knew how to do was take. Take interest, take advantage, then take the nearest exit. Too bad she never learned to take responsibility.
Victorine E. Lieske
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