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Leadership - leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses. -- Mitt Romney
Whatever happens, take responsibility. -- Tony Robbins
Take responsibility for the energy you bring. -- Jill Bolte Taylor
Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses. -- John C. Maxwell
But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company. -- Kenneth Lay
Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you. -- Tyra Banks
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. -- Les Brown
If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life. -- Eckhart Tolle
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball. -- Billie Jean King
Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself. -- Deepak Chopra
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. -- Richard Bach
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
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
There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that. -- Bill Kurtis
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does. -- Carlos Castaneda
There cannot be true democracy unless women's voices are heard. There cannot be true democracy unless women are given the opportunity to take responsibility for their own lives. -- Hillary Clinton
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
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
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now -- Eckhart Tolle
Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing -- Jim Rohn
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart. -- Dan Millman
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
The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity. -- Martin Sheen
We live in such a corporate world where everyone is passing the buck, it seems to me. Therefore I like stories where the individual takes responsibility for BEING the individual, and not just for himself, but for his comrades, his society and ultimately for his country. Ultimately, we can all learn a lesson from that and not be browbeaten by the corporate world which is taking over. -- Liam Neeson
Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility. -- James Levine
I should have worried about taking responsibilities for which I was not ready. -- Emma Bonino
I don't think I'm egotistical as much as I'm taking responsibility for what I'm putting out there. -- Jon Favreau
Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility. -- Mireille Guiliano
For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family. -- Dennis Prager
I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell. -- Jason Ritter
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
The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things. -- Stephen Covey
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life. -- Jon Katz
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
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
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. -- Fred Woodworth
One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection. -- Iyanla Vanzant
People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. -- Brooks Atkinson
Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being. -- Steve Garvey
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
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
Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking. -- Paul Ryan
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
Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life. -- William Blake
Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea -- Dennis Prager
Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering. -- Tony DiCicco
Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works. -- Carl Johan Calleman
Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us. -- Heidi Julavits
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. -- Robert Jordan
The ultimate step in taking responsibility is making sure our actions line up with our words. -- John C. Maxwell
Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. -- Seth Godin
Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling. -- Susan Jeffers
Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me. -- Mason Cooley
You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize. -- Tim Kaine
A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility -- Mohamed Mohamed Adel
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you. -- Brian Tracy
There's a responsibility in being a person. It's more than just taking up space where air would be. -- John Steinbeck
Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility. -- Madeleine Albright
Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place. -- Jack Bauer
Having an experience is taking part in the world. Taking part in the world is really about sharing responsibility. -- Olafur Eliasson
When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. -- Lake Bell
If you see someone taking responsibility, give that person authority. If you see someone looking for authority, watch out! -- Loren Cunningham
Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts. -- Stephen White
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Trust doesn't develop from always doing the right thing. Trust comes from taking responsibility when we do the wrong thing. -- Simon Sinek
Perhaps we have been misguided into taking too much responsibility from our children, leaving them too little room for discovery -- Helen Hayes
My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.... -- Rob Waldrop
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
Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall. -- Andy Kennedy
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
Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always. -- Mariel Hemingway
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
Healing comes from taking responsibility: to realize that it is you - and no one else - that creates your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. -- Peter Shepherd
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
Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself. Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don't make yourself a victim of yourself! -- Susan Jeffers
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
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
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
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
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
Things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it. -- Henry Cloud
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
If I find here and Now unacceptable, I have three choices: 1-Totally accept it. 2- Change it. 3-Remove myself from the situation. That is taking responsibility for my life. -- Eckhart Tolle
Why mundanes always insist on taking responsibility for things that aren't their fault is a mystery to me. You didn't force that cocktail down his idiotic throat." -Jace, pg.241- -- Cassandra Clare
All around you, production must be taking place to bring you closer to realizing your defined success. Adopt a personal responsibility attitude to enable the realization of your dreams. -- Archibald Marwizi
And things don't change in a marriage until the spouse who is taking responsibility for a problem that is not hers decides to say or do something about it. -- Henry Cloud
In a multipolar world, there must be more powers capable of taking responsibility, the U.S. and Europe must be able to unite to achieve peace in the Middle East. -- Dominique de Villepin
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
As long as Rupert Murdoch has owned it, the 'New York Post' has been defined by its shamelessness and total lack of interest in taking responsibility for its worst errors and poor judgment. -- Alex Pareene
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
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
Someone might steal your childhood, but they can't steal your will. There is a point where you're given the opportunity in life to stop blaming everyone else and start taking responsibility for your life. -- Buck Brannaman

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