Enlightenment demands that you take responsibility for…

If you want to be positive, upbeat, and passionate, you need to take responsibility for being that way.

— John C. Maxwell

I am a lazy man. Laziness keeps me from believing that enlightenment demands effort, discipline, strict diet, non-smoking, and other evidences of virtue. There…

— Thaddeus Golas

“If complete enlightenment demands relinquishing the self, then complete enlightenment implies the acceptance of mortality. Not that there isn't more to being enlightened than…

— Kathryn Harrison

“With wisdom comes responsibility. Somewhere along the way, I misplaced both.”

— I.E. Castellano

What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself.

— Mark Oliver

To explore their own feelings of responsibility and find a way to accept it without being overwhelmed by something they can't change.

— Anonymous

As a human being, member of society, you must clearly state your mind. It's a responsibility. It is the way you identify yourself otherwise…

— Ai Weiwei

If you do a job another's way, he or she must take the responsibility. If you do it your way, you must take the…

— Napoleon Hill

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it…

— Wayne Dyer

“Moving toward a more harmonious way of life and greater resilience requires our active participation. This means finding ways to become more aware of…

— Sandor Ellix Katz

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you…

— Wayne Dyer

“The vision of life is not a "discovery"; it's a "work" and whatever position you occupy demands work. Your life may not be built…

— Israelmore Ayivor

She was seriously in love, but she never made demands.

— Haruki Murakami

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

— Albert Camus

Politics only makes the difficult challenge of marriage even harder, with the demands of the job and the public spotlight it casts on a…

— Mark McKinnon