Top 1200 Taking Responsibility Quotes & Sayings

There's always a possibility of richer maturation - of taking more and more responsibility for yourself and for your life...And this is what I hope...to make you understand how much you gain by taking re-sponsibility for every emotion, every movement you make, every thought you have...We touch each other by honestly being what we are, not intentionally making contact.

My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.

There is a Party of fiscal responsibility... economic responsibility... social responsibility... civic responsibility... personal responsibility... and moral responsibility. That party is the Democratic Party.

It's about taking extra responsibility and delivering it at the right time for the team.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

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.

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

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.

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

You will look in vain to see Donald Trump ever taking responsibility for anybody and apologize.

Taking responsibility as a co-creator with God presupposes a basic understanding of how creation works.

By leadership, I mean taking complete responsibility for an organization's well-being and growth, and changing it for the better. Real leadership is not about prestige, power or status. It is about responsibility.

I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

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

Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people.

Adopting a pet is like taking the responsibility of a baby.

To avoid taking responsibility, I become unresponsive but hang on until the other person leaves me.

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

My advice is toughen up, work hard. Start taking responsibility for yourself. Stop being so offended.

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

The essence of leadership is essentially taking the responsibility of trying to interpret the future to the present.

I have a partner who can be there alongside me, who's taking up a huge part of that joint responsibility, because he's a parent, too - he's not a babysitter.

We need government and business to work together for the benefit of everyone. It should no longer be just about typical "corporate social responsibility" where the "responsibility" bit is usually the realm of a small team buried in a basement office - now it should be about every single person in a business taking responsibility to make a difference in everything they do, at work and in their personal lives.

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.

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.)

Blaming is so much easier than taking responsibility, because if you take responsibility … then you might be to blame.

First, recognize the mistake. The main thing is taking responsibility and being authentic.

Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

Until you recognize the need, the absolute requirement for taking responsibility, you will not succeed. Once you do accept the responsibility, however, the Egoscue Method never fails. Never. No drugs, no surgery, no machines, no miracles. Just You. A normal person, doing normal things.

It is the church's responsibility, the government's responsibility, and the personal responsibility of every one of us to love.

Let us admit that most of us writers feel an essential aversion to politics. By taking such a position, however, we accept the perverted principle of specialization, according to which some are paid to write about the horrors of the world and human responsibility and others to deal with those horrors and bear the human responsibility for them.

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

If all you've got to do is a couple of lines, dear Jesus, don't let them down. Other people are taking responsibility.

Character in many ways is everything in leadership. It is made up of many things, but I would say character is really integrity. When you delegate something to a subordinate, for example, it is absolutely your responsibility, and he must understand this. You as a leader must take complete responsibility for what the subordinate does. I once said, as a sort of wisecrack, that leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.

Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.

I think at a certain point actors need to start taking responsibility for the kinds of stories they want to tell.

I'm often asked how I shoulder the responsibility of films, but I've always believed in taking risks.

When I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig.

Batterers aren't renowned for taking responsibility for their abusiveness, Sam. They tend to shed blame like a snake molts.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.

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.

When you learn to take responsibility for yourselves, then you will start taking responsibility for the planet. The planet is being destroyed by your abandonment of responsibility. You assume that you own the planet. And ownership confers upon you the right to do as you like. You do not own this beautiful planet. You are simply a guest here.

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

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.

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

For all of higher civilization's recorded history, becoming a man was defined overwhelmingly as taking responsibility for a family.

The fact is that Germany is taking on its responsibility in the world - in the fight against IS, but also in the Middle East, in Africa and in Afghanistan.

I don't want a girlfriend because that means I've got a responsibility. I have a responsibility to call you. I have a responsibility not to be with another woman. I have a responsibility to be there on time when you need me.

With its record spending and deficits, the Obama administration has shown little interest in taking fiscal responsibility. That is a mistake.

There is nothing easy about becoming conscious. My own life was much easier before I knew about the deeper meaning of choice, the power of choice that accompanies taking responsibility. Abdicating responsibility to an outside source can seem, at least for the moment, so much easier. Once you know better, however, you can't get away with kidding yourself for long.

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

Modeling was a great door for me, for taking responsibility and traveling.

Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being..... doing.... having, or feeling.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

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.

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

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

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.