Inspiring Responsibility Quotes to Help You Take Charge of Your Life - page 32

Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
 Anita Brookner
Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.
 Alfred Armand Montapert
Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.
 Immanuel Kant
If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder?
 Robert Dale Owen
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
Mastery means responsibility, ability to respond in real time to the need of the moment. Intuitive or inspired living means not just passively hearing the voice, but acting on it.
 Stephen Nachmanovitch
The Republicans tend to choose the candidate who came in second place in the last election, and Democrats tend to move on. Ask President Ed Muskie how it worked out to be the front-runner. Ask President Howard Dean how it worked out.
 Brian Schweitzer
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.
 Leslie Morgan Steiner
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one\'s best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out.
 B. C. Forbes
We are so used to multi-tasking. 2014 was probably the most productive year of my life...But I noticed during the last couple of months when I would get alone with God it was hard to do one thing at a time.
 Francis Chan
Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
 Vince Cable
Your weaknesses are not an accident but deliberately allowed, very interesting phrase, deliberately allowed in your life for the purpose of demonstrating His power through you.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
 Tom Peters
There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived.
We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made.
The top priority is leaving no child behind. We want accountability in the system, and we want schools to recognize they have a responsibility to teach students.
 Andrew Card
A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.
 Stedman Graham
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It\'s about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.
 Iain Duncan Smith
Media corporations have a civic responsibility not only to prevent fraud and financial abuse, but also to not corrupt or degrade our culture.
 Charles W. Pickering