Responsibility
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- If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
- If you own this story you get to write the ending.
- If you take one hundred percent responsibility for the way you are now, a brighter tomorrow is a definite possibility.
- If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
- If you want to know why your people are not performing well, step up to the mirror and take a peek.
- If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself.
- If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
- Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
- Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
- Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. Therefore, no American can afford to be apathetic about the problem of racial justice. It is a problem that meets every man at his front door.
- Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
- It is better to live on the crust of your own industry than on the fruits of other people's.
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
- It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come.
- It is my firm belief that the best way to fix the world — a handyman’s dream, if ever there was one — is to fix yourself.
- It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.
- It is not the situation which makes the man, but the man who makes the situation. The slave may be a freeman. The monarch may be a slave. Situations are noble or ignoble, as we make them.
- It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
- It isn't what you find, it's what you do about what you find.
- It’s not your fault, but it’s your responsibility to do something about it.
- It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you — or don’t. So don’t take it lightly.
- Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.
- Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.
- Leadership is not a license to do less; it is a responsibility to do more.
- Let us all be the leaders we wish we had.
- Let us not say, Every man is the architect of his own fortune; but let us say, Every man is the architect of his own character.
- Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.John F. KennedySourced
- Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
- Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to it. Liberty must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
- Life becomes meaningful when you work on it. You are the only person who can make it meaningful for yourself.
- Life gets easier when you don’t blame other people and focus on what you can control.
- Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.
- Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men.
- Man is not the creature of circumstances; circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
- Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
- Maturity comes when you stop making excuses and start making changes.
- Maturity doesn’t come with age; it comes with acceptance of responsibility.
- Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.