Quotes About Taking Responsibility

#1. Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Byron Katie

#2. The purpose of subduing is a function of taking responsibility for the entire earth

Sunday Adelaja

#3. In the U.S., we've given corporations all the powers and freedoms of an individual but with none of the responsibility. Corporations need to be giving back to their communities just as much as they're taking away.

Morgan Spurlock

#4. Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers.

Dalai Lama

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

Bruce Lee

#6. Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Practical management of your time includes taking responsibility of your choices.

Julie Connor

#8. I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.

Wes Craven

#9. Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

Haruki Murakami

#10. Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

James Levine

#11. The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words.

John C. Maxwell

#12. I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

Edward Zwick

#13. We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility.

Nancy Pelosi

#14. One main condition of aristocratic life was present in the South and not in the North
personal responsibility to other human beings for education and material welfare. (A Carnegie or a Ford, like a bureaucracy, molds the lives of millions without taking any responsibility.)

Marshall McLuhan

#15. By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Wayne Dyer

#16. By its very definition, civic responsibility means taking a healthy role in the life of one's community. That means that classroom lessons should be complemented by work outside the classroom. Service-learning does just that, tying community service to academic learning.

John Glenn

#17. Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.

Hillary Clinton

#18. The quality of taking responsibility does not come naturally. It has to be taught
more by example than by anything else.

Daniel Whyte III

#19. There is no harm taking medication as it is God-given ability or utilizing the wisdom God gives to doctors and to prepare medications. But it also your responsibility to build faith for healing while using medication, and you must do that.

Paul Silway

#20. 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

#21. If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

#22. You cannot fix people who will not take feedback, because from their perspective, they do not have a problem.

Henry Cloud

#23. For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.

Ray Anderson

#24. Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

Dennis Prager

#25. Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Tony DiCicco

#26. leadership means taking personal responsibility for results. Leadership means you get things done. Leadership means you keep your promises.

Robin S. Sharma

#27. These things were in my mind from the first moment I entered the vocal booth. The gratitude I had for rock and roll as it pulled me through a difficult adolescence. The joy I experienced when I danced. The moral power I gleaned in taking responsibility for one's action.
Patti Smith

Patti Smith

#28. One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Iyanla Vanzant

#29. Every human should have the idea of taking care of the environment, of nature, of water. So using too much or wasting water should have some kind of feeling or sense of concern. Some sort of responsibility and with that, a sense of discipline.

Dalai Lama

#30. Those with visible responsibility for leadership are nearly always too visible to take responsibility for change ...

Harlan Cleveland

#31. 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

#32. If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.

L.M. Fields

#33. Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust.

Robert Jordan

#34. Let's start by taking a little responsibility, okay? Let's not say "what happened" let's say "what I did". "What happened" sounds like you weren't involved and that's bullshit, Alex.

Kate Sherwood

#35. 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

#36. I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there.

Jon Favreau

#37. Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.

Mitt Romney

#38. Taking responsibility of others means to be selfless. We have to put aside our own well being and desires as secondary and to think primarily of what is best for the persons who are looking up to us.

Radhanath Swami

#39. Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery

Helen Hayes

#40. 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

#41. I see everybody arguing about what the value of music should be instead of what I think the bigger conversation is, which is that music has value, it's subjective and we're moving to a new era where the audience is taking more responsibility for supporting artists at whatever level.

Amanda Palmer

#42. When we stop asking the question "Whose fault is it?" and start asking the question "How can I work with this now?" then we are truly stepping onto the path of taking responsibility for our karma. When

Ethan Nichtern

#43. We sort of have given up on the idea of taking any sort of personal responsibility for what we see. I don't understand it at all. There are many things that I won't let my kids watch.

Tim Daly

#44. If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out!

Loren Cunningham

#45. I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#46. 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

#47. Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

Pope Francis

#48. By declaring complete responsibility for being in your cocoon, and total responsibility for leaving. We become trapped when we avoid taking responsibility for the conditions in our lives. We're trapped further by blaming others for lack of fulfillment, success, and happiness.

Doreen Virtue

#49. To ask another man's blessing is simply to avoid taking the responsibility.

Bernard Cornwell

#50. I was letting go and undoing the hell I had created. By squaring all with love, trying to love rather than trying to be loved, and by taking responsibility for all that was happening to me; finding my subconscious thought and correcting it, I became freer and freer, happier and happier.

Lester Levenson

#51. Taking responsibility of your life and knowing the fact that YOU attract people and events in your life is scary, isn't it?

Maddy Malhotra

#52. The passengers were on my aircraft, and I have to take responsibility for that.

Tony Fernandes

#53. Taking charge of our life reinforces our self-worth.

Sam Owen

#54. This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running a serious business with investments from the biggest VCs in the Valley.

Sarah Lacy

#55. When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

Banana Yoshimoto

#56. 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

#57. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.

Augusten Burroughs

#58. People that take responsibility are often given responsibility!

Seth Godin

#59. By simply being honest with yourself and your food choices, you have stepped away from unconscious eating and toward a place of fuller responsibility. This is the essence of taking charge of your life.

Bob Harper

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

Adam Khoo

#61. I will take responsibility for all operations.

Shunroku Hata

#62. Every time I see someone taking care of a baby, I think why in the world would anyone willingly saddle themselves with that responsibility?

Dov Davidoff

#63. 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

#64. You want to be loved without risking consequence, so you reach out to get the attention you need while enjoying the luxury of taking no responsibility for those words." I

Penelope Douglas

#65. I'm the youngest in a family where I didn't have to take responsibility for much.

Jennifer Lawrence

#66. 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

#67. True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.

F. Paul Wilson

#68. Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

Mireille Guiliano

#69. Champions take responsibility.

Billie Jean King

#70. It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.

Josei Toda

#71. Most myths were made up by men who needed a scapegoat to avoid taking responsibility for a catastrophe of their own making.

S.J. Harper

#72. For some reason, we as a culture have adopted blame as a method we use to feel better about the choices we make, rather than taking responsibility for them.

Catherine Garrett

#73. The copyright industry has managed to kill civil liberties for their own children, ushering in a dystopian surveillance machine, merely to avoid taking responsibility for their own business failures. I lack words to quantify my contempt for these utter parasites.

Rick Falkvinge

#74. The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.

Cortney S. Warren

#75. I expect to see the State, which is in a position to calculate the marginal efficiency of capital-goods on long views and on the basis of the general social advantage, taking an ever greater responsibility for directly organizing investments.

John Maynard Keynes

#76. Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life - which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.

Jillian Michaels

#77. People without firmness of character love to make up a fate for themselves; that relieves them of the necessity of having their own will and of taking responsibility for themselves.

Ivan Turgenev

#78. Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility.

Olafur Eliasson

#79. Apologies require taking full responsibility. No half-truths, no partial admissions, no rationalizations, no finger pointing, and no justifications belong in any apology.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#80. Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.

Heidi Julavits

#81. I'm quite capable of taking responsibility for my own death.

Brynn Kelly

#82. For Christians, doing something about climate change is about living out our faith - caring for those who need help, our neighbors here at home or on the other side of the world, and taking responsibility for this planet that God created and entrusted to us.

Katharine Hayhoe

#83. 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

#84. Freedom comes from taking responsibility; bondage comes from giving it away.

Henry Cloud

#85. Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.

Sharon Salzberg

#86. Discipline isn't about showing a dog who's boss; it's about taking
responsibility for a living creature you have brought into your world.

Cesar Millan

#87. Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

Heather Schuck

#88. There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be.

John Steinbeck

#89. In any disagreement, I believe both parties are 50% wrong. Taking responsibility for your part fixes most issues.

L.R.W. Lee

#90. There is no substitute for hard work and taking responsibility for own own lives. And there is no substitute for love, patience, kindness and acceptance.

Jose N. Harris

#91. 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

#92. We're just trying to figure out what being a good citizen is, what participating in a democracy is, what taking responsibility for being an American citizen in a global context means to us.

Cecily McMillan

#93. Surely taking the gospel to every kindred, tongue, and people is the single greatest responsibility we have in mortality ... We have been privileged to be born in these last days, as opposed to some earlier dispensation, to help take the gospel to all the earth

Howard W. Hunter

#94. The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.

Eckhart Tolle

#95. Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Jack Bauer

#96. There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.

Harry Reid

#97. At the end of the day, the key to happiness is taking ultimate responsibility for your reactions to all of your experiences - the good and the chaotic.

Yehuda Berg

#98. Papa wasn't man enough, couldn't stand up to his responsibilities. Instead of taking care of me, he'd rather live lavishly.

Tupac Shakur

#99. A life of adventure is ours for the taking, whether we're seven or seventy. Life for the most part is what me make it. We have been given a responsibility to live it fully, joyfully, completely, and richly, in whatever span of time God grants us on this earth.

Luci Swindoll

#100. Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Dwight D. Eisenhower