Quotes About Taking Responsibility For Yourself

#1. For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

Iain Duncan Smith

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

Tony DiCicco

#3. 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

#4. The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Alan Moore

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Harlan Cleveland

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Robert Jordan

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Jon Favreau

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

Mitt Romney

#15. 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

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

Helen Hayes

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Josei Toda

#23. Setting boundaries inevitably involves taking responsibility for your choices. You are the one who makes them. You are the one who must live with their consequences. And you are the one who may be keeping yourself from making the choices you could be happy with.

Henry Cloud

#24. Taking responsibility for your life is the biggest challenge you will have, but it is also the most beautiful gift you can give yourself.

Steven Aitchison

#25. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.

Miya Yamanouchi

#26. You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Grace Lee Boggs

#27. If you don't take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

Paul McKenna

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Sunday Adelaja

#31. 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

#32. 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

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

Bruce Lee

#34. Take responsibility for making conscious choices.

Deepak Chopra

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

Julie Connor

#36. 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

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

Haruki Murakami

#38. Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

James Levine

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

John C. Maxwell

#40. 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

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

Robin S. Sharma

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

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

Daniel Whyte III

#47. 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

#48. 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

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

Brene Brown

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

Henry Cloud

#51. 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

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

Dennis Prager