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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. -- Roy L. Smith
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. -- Denis Waitley
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. -- Joan Didion
And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility. -- Daniel Greenberg
I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do. -- Oliver North
It would be dangerous territory if I wasn't practising what I preach which is to always accept responsibility, always accept the consequences of your actions. -- David Blunkett
In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. -- J. L. Austin
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert. -- Robert Fripp
I grow spiritually when I accept responsibility for my life. -- Louise Hay
Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life. -- Orrin Woodward
Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions. -- Richard L. Evans
You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that. -- Paula Broadwell
Excuses are a time thief. Have a goal, accept responsibility, and take action! -- Steve Maraboli
I'm willing to deal with the consequences and accept responsibility for my actions. -- Michael Vick
We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on. -- Karan Casey
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life. -- Leo Buscaglia
You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole. -- Dane Cook
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it. -- Zig Ziglar
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense. -- Holly Lisle
It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard! -- Vaclav Havel
None of us can hope to get anywhere without character, moral courage and the spiritual strength to accept responsibility. -- Thomas Watson, Jr.
Weak leaders of churches blame people and circumstances. Breakout church leaders accept responsibility and see God's possibilities in even difficult situations. -- Thom S. Rainer
A leader should not take credit when things go right if they are not willing to accept responsibility when things go wrong. -- Simon Sinek
Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it. -- Steve Maraboli
The moment you accept responsibility for EVERYTHING in your life, is the moment you gain the power to change ANYTHING in your life. -- Hal Elrod
If you're passionate, be passionate enough to fail. Fail small, accept responsibility, repeat. The people who make change are the survivors of serial failure. -- Seth Godin
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.' -- Billie Jean King
I am inclined to believe that a man may be free to do anything he pleases if only he will accept responsibility for whatever he does. -- Ellen Glasgow
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. -- Michael Ramsey
Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility. -- Michael Korda
I believe that people of substantial wealth potentially create problems for future generations unless they themselves accept responsibility to use their wealth during their lifetime to help worthwhile causes. -- Chuck Feeney
In the one defense, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility. -- J. L. Austin
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's when honor becomes more than empty words. -- Lynn Flewelling
We have lots of studies about what's wrong with our education system. We need to accept responsibility, be bold, find solutions and move forward to make education a centerpiece of our economic development. -- Christine Gregoire
Almost no one will accept responsibility for his or her role in precipitating a crisis: not leveraged speculators, not willfully blind leaders of financial institutions, and certainly not regulators, government officials, ratings agencies or politicians. -- Seth Klarman
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness. -- Iyanla Vanzant
I still believe in the power of forgiveness. I believe in the power of redemption. Today I manned up and tried to accept responsibility for the errors of my ways. And I still believe in the resurrection. -- Jesse Jackson, Jr.
My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin. -- Samuel Beckett
Yoga means we accept responsibility for the tasks in our life, and we know that being a king, being an enlightened teacher, being someone who sweeps the streets, we know that nothing is a greater yoga than anything else. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There is a severe horse overpopulation crisis caused by overbreeding in the racing industry. It's time for that industry to accept responsibility for its castoffs and take dramatic action to protect a species that has so loyally served humankind. -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts. -- Bill Vaughan
Success on any level begins when you accept responsibility for creating life what you want. You are the only person who can truly make it happen. Not your boss, your business partner, your financial planner, your spouse of life-partner. Just you. -- Paul Clitheroe
I remind everyone: Whether you school them at home or send them to school, you as a parent have the responsibility to make sure they learn and behave. Teachers and principals may help, but parents are the ones who must accept responsibility. -- Ernest Istook
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball. -- Billie Jean King
I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh. -- Karl Donitz
The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity's relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition. -- Jacque Fresco
The essential psychological requirement of a free society is the willingness on the part of the individual to accept responsibility for his life. - Edith Packer When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny. -- Thomas Paine
As parents and as consumers, we have the right and the power to pressure the entertainment industry to respond to our needs. Americans, after all, should insist that every corporate giant - whether it produces chemicals or records - accept responsibility for what it produces. -- Tipper Gore
There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone. -- August Wilson
Each new moment presents an opportunity for conscious choice. We can choose to let go of the past. We can choose to be here now. We can choose to accept responsibility for ourselves. . . . We can choose to awaken. Or we can choose to remain asleep and unconscious. -- Leonard Jacobson
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. -- Gavyn Davies
I would never dream of telling people how to dress. but I do say to them, however you are dressing, accept responsibility for it. And also, unless asked, I don't judge. And if asked to judge - I would approach it socratically, I would approach it with questions. -- Tim Gunn
It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. -- George Pataki
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who can't accept adult responsibility. -- Dexter Fletcher
Our veterans accepted the responsibility to defend America and uphold our values when duty called. -- Bill Shuster
And, if there was any responsibility in refusing to obey, he was willing to accept it. -- John Bigelow
I accept that responsibility and ask only that I be judged by my performance as its chief executive. -- Jane Byrne
I fought for the values of responsibility, and I'm not a man who does not accept his responsibilities. -- Nicolas Sarkozy
There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. -- Denis Waitley
I'm trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. -- Jack Kevorkian
Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship. -- Spencer Bachus
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
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own. -- J. M. Coetzee
May we graciously accept our responsibility. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Accept love instinctively, without responsibility or conditions. -- Meg Rosoff
Accept complete responsibility both for understanding and for being understood. -- Brian Tracy
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life. -- Chogyam Trungpa
When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future. -- Zig Ziglar
We become leaders when we accept the responsibility to protect those in our care. -- Simon Sinek
I have a natural affinity with children and adults who cant accept adult responsibility. -- Dexter Fletcher
If one is to use public funds he must accept a responsibility to the public. -- Thomas Francis, Jr.
I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended. -- Amy Pascal
[W]omen will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality. -- Camille Paglia
Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. -- Kathy Mckeon
When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. -- Maya Angelou
The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility. -- Nelson Mandela
When you accept a leadership role, you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others. -- Kelley Armstrong
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. -- Bruce Lee
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk. -- Stacy Allison
If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt. -- Leonard Jacobson
People can live tremendously rich, blissful, ecstatic lives. But the first thing is, we have to accept our responsibility. -- Rajneesh
If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility -- Pat Summitt
Outsider means "I will accept the possibility that I don't have responsibility for what is happening inside my domain." -- Aleksandar Hemon
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. -- James Cameron
The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, -- Neal Boortz
Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. -- Hubert Selby, Jr.
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. -- Les Brown
Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like... from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal. -- Noel Tichy
Until you accept total responsibility - no matter what - you won't be able to put plans in place to accomplish your goals. -- David Cottrell
A miraculous healing awaits this planet once we accept our new responsibility to collectively tend the Garden, rather than fight over the turf. -- Bruce H. Lipton
No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation. -- Mahatma Gandhi
I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support. -- Robin Cook
Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility. -- John M Swomley
As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility. -- Sophia Loren
Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free. -- John Foster Dulles
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. -- Deborah Day
You choose how to feel and act every moment of every day. The moment you accept this responsibility completely, you gain total control over your life. -- Marshall Sylver
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relaitonship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose. -- Deborah
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics. -- James Frey
It would have been easier to fight alone with inadequate forces than to have to accept...responsibility for our ally's lack of fighting qualities and dubious loyalty. -- Albert Kesselring
If we accept and acquiesce in the face of discrimination, we accept the responsibility ourselves. We should, therefore, protest openly everything ... that smacks of discrimination or slander. -- Mary McLeod Bethune
I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not. -- David Frye
The first key to a purposeful living is to accept the responsibility of your mission. When you agree "yes" to the calling, then you ask God "why?". -- Israelmore Ayivor
To be a role model is not something you choose, it is chosen for you and once it is you must accept the responsibility bestowed upon you -- Luke Wood
Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention. -- Iyanla Vanzant
It is essential for the oppressed to realize that when they accept the struggle for humanization they also accept, from that moment, their total responsibility for the struggle. -- Paulo Freire
It's not enough simply to wear the badge of corporate responsibility. Business must accept that real change is the only response to climate change and other environmental crises -- Jonathon Porritt
The future is up for grabs. It belongs to any and all who will take the risk and accept the responsibility of consciously creating the future they want. -- Robert Anton Wilson
What is the next thing you need for leadership? It is the ability to make up your mind to make a decision and accept full responsibility for that decision. -- Sam Manekshaw
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
Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of. -- Paul Arden

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