Taking Responsibility Quotes

298 Taking Responsibility quotes by 250 unique authors

Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. — Gary Snyder
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
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, itâ€™s unlikely you will step up… — Noam Chomsky
You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather,… — J D Salinger
That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life. — Michael Robotham
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:… — Winona LaDuke
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… — Cassandra Clare
Taking responsibility takes all the joy out of life, and drains a man to dust. — Robert Jordan
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can. — Gregory Maguire
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… — Banana Yoshimoto
I had to take responsibility, even if it meant saying no to an authority figure, because I was the authority on me. — Kelley Armstrong
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
The ruling power is always faced with the question, â€˜In such and such circumstances, what would you do?â€™, whereas the opposition is not obliged to… — George Orwell
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… — Natsuki Takaya
All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land. — Deborah Harkness
When you hold people up for ridicule, you have to take responsibility when other people act on it. — Jay Asher
Optimism sprouts from the knowledge that you are in control of your own life, not your past and not those around you. Part of being… — Augusten Burroughs
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… — Brandon Sanderson
lf youâ€™re going to deal with reality, youâ€™re going to have to make one big discovery: Reality is something that belongs to you as an… — Frank Zappa
Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility. — Haruki Murakami

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