Take Responsibility Quotes

Be compassionate... and take responsibility for each other. If we only learned those lessons, this world would be a better place.
- Mitch Albom

Those who cannot think or take responsibility for themselves need, and clamor for, a leader.
- Hermann Hesse

This year has been full of lessons learned and soul searching and realizing I'm an adult. It's time to take responsibility and not take the easy way out.
- Nicole Richie

The point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.
- Jay Asher

There are some sick and twisted people out there, Alex and maybe I'm one of them but the point is, when you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.
- Jay Asher

When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it.
- Jay Asher

It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.
- Steve Maraboli

Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
- Steve Maraboli

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

God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.
- Jim Bakker

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.
- Tyra Banks

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
- Evan Bayh

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
- Haruki Murakami

The most important point to remember in developing self-confidence is to take responsibility for who we are. This empowers us. We can change anything, do anything, and be anything when we assume full responsibility for ourselves.
- Rachael Bermingham

The only way we can change our world is to take responsibility for our part in it.
- Rachael Bermingham

But any perception of this application being speeded up requires me to take responsibility.
- David Blunkett

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

Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect, save, help- but know when to give up. They're precarious ledges to walk. How do I do it?
- Brandon Sanderson

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.
- Les Brown

Don't become mesmerize by the pictures that have appeared if they are not what you want. Take responsibility for them, make light of them if you can, and let them go. Then think new thoughts of what you want, feel them, and be grateful that it is done.
- Rhonda Byrne

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
- Tony Robbins

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.
- Eric Cantor

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it's unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.
- Noam Chomsky

Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.
- Rodolfo Costa

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

Dillon, all you have in this world, really, are your responses to it. Responses to your feelings and responses to what comes in from outside. You know how adults are always trying to get you to take responsibility? That's all responsibility is, responding to the world, owning your responses. It isn't about taking blame or finding out if something's your fault.
- Chris Crutcher

The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.
- Deborah Day

A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens.
- Peter Defazio

The ruling power is always faced with the question, 'In such and such circumstances, what would you do?', whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.
- George Orwell

You're a damn dog," Adam finally snapped.
"If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result
- Suzanne Enoch

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

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

The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
- Oded Fehr

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

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjuration. People populate the darkness; with ghost, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that rock solid belief, that makes things happen.
- Neil Gaiman

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.
- Paul Gascoigne

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.
- Daryl Gates

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.
- Jason Giambi

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
- Fay Godwin

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

Hope is 'that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future.' Not just responsibility for our individual futures but also for that of the world.
- Lyanda Lynn Haupt

A child whose life is full of the threat and fear of punishment is locked into babyhood. There is no way for him to grow up, to learn to take responsibility for his life and acts. Most important of all, we should not assume that having to yield to the threat of our superior force is good for the child's character. It is never good for anyone's character.
- John Holt

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.
- Chrissie Hynde

Education begins at home and I applaud the parents who recognize that they - not someone else - must take responsibility to assure that their children are well educated.
- Ernest Istook

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

I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.
- Thomas S Monson

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
- Joyce Meyer

I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
- Anselm Kiefer

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
- Mike Krzyzewski

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

I think that discipline is so much of an important part of being a parent. Because it's very, very important to teach your children to take responsibility for their actions.
- Cheryl Ladd

Another thing is, people lose perspective. It is a cultural trait in America to think in terms of very short time periods. My advice is: learn history. Take responsibility for history. Recognise that sometimes things take a long time to change. If you look at your history in this country, you find that for most rights, people had to struggle. People in this era forget that and quite often think they are entitled, and are weary of struggling over any period of time
- Winona Laduke

Congress must take responsibility for a new positive direction - an innovative agenda that will lead to a more secure America. Secure communities, secure economies, and a secure quality of life.
- Rick Larsen

But I can't take responsibility for criminal conduct of somebody inside the company.
- Kenneth Lay

I have to take responsibility for anything that happened within its businesses.
- Kenneth Lay

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.
- Blanche Lincoln

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.
- Shane Macgowan

If the unlettered farmers of Munchkinland and the factory workers of Gillikin believe that their fate is being determined by how the Time Dragon dreams them up, they don't need to bother to take responsibility for their actions or for changing their class and station in life.
- Gregory Maguire

I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
- Gregory Maguire

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

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.
- Ron Moody

I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.
- Mary Tyler Moore

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
- Toni Morrison

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

It's frightening to be free, to have to take responsibility for your decisions.
- Azar Nafisi

I do take responsibility for it. I admit to having a problem. I have been to numerous treatment centers.
- Tatum Oneal

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

You need to be proactive, carve out time in your schedule, and take responsibility for being the healthiest person you can be - no one else is going to do it for you.
- Mehmet Oz

When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
- George Pataki

When they come here, what we are looking for them to do is step up to the plate, take responsibility and get the big innings, the centuries - or take a lead with the ball.
- Andy Pick

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.
- Vladimir Putin

You've never been a whiner, Margo."
"I could give lessons.It's time for me to grow up, take responsibility,be sensible."
"Talk to life insurance salesman," Josh said dryly. "Apply for a library card.Clip coupons."
She looked down her nose. "Spoken like a man born with not only a silver spoon but the whole place setting stuck in his arrogant little mouth."
"I happen to have several library cards," he muttered. "Somewhere."
"Do you mind?
- Nora Roberts

Learn to take responsibility for emotions, and to manage energies, always working within present resources.
- Lillian Russell

We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
- Paul Ryan

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there.
- Gary Snyder

The only life worth living is the one we take responsibility for choosing.
- Alexandra Stoddard

I had learned many years ago in private business never to take responsibility without adequate authority; and the new Secretary of Defense, as budgets were sharply cut, quickly found that out.
- Stuart Symington

You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder.
- Natsuki Takaya

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.
- Jalal Talabani

Kevyn, I'm promoting you from Tech Sergeant to Munitions Commander. I want you to take responsibility for all Company weapons.
Munitions Commander? Why me?
I don't know. Call it "suspicion of extreme competence" on my part.
-Captain Tagon & Commander Kevyn Andreyasn
- Howard Tayler

Take responsibility for the energy you bring.
- Jill Bolte Taylor

Each one of us has to take responsibility for reality, and present it so that kids will grow up familiar with that and say, OK. I've seen that before. I'm not afraid of it.
- Thuy Trang

Yes, it is long past time we get serious about tackling the nation's ever-growing deficits. But the average American family drawn into serious debt cannot just threaten to stiff its creditors. It must cut its spending in the future, but also take responsibility for the debt incurred in the past.
- Peter Welch

BP has finally acknowledged what the American people have been saying for weeks: It must take responsibility for its reckless conduct, clean up the Gulf and compensate the countless victims of the disaster it caused.
- Peter Welch

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

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.
- Viktor Yanukovych

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

If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.
- Sean Young