Responsibility
Responsibility...is...the ability to fulfill
one's needs, and to do so in a way that
does not deprive others of the ability to
fulfill their needs.
– Dr. William Glasser
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The more we practice the habit of acting
from a position of responsibility, the more
effective we become as human beings,
and the more successful we become as
managers of our lives.
– Joyce Chapman
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I am the master of my fate;
I am the captain of my soul.
– William E. Henley
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I do think that that the greatest lesson of
life is that you are responsible for your
own life.
– Oprah Winfrey
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In our period of time, there is a shift of
dominance to a new principle. The new
principle is that you as an individual are
the predominant creative force in your life.
– Robert Fritz
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I am a Shawnee. I am the maker of my
own fortune.
– Tecumseh
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You are responsible for the eventual
outcome of your life. You have been given
the greatest power in the world--the
power to choose.
– Denis Waitley
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I believe that we are solely responsible for
our choices, and we have to accept the
consequences of our every deed, word,
and thought throughout our lifetime.
– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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What the recent research on student
learning has concluded is that the more
actively students are involved in the
learning process and take personal
responsibility for their learning outcomes,
the greater are the learning results.
– Todd M. Davis &
Patricia Hillman Murrell
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It is not what happens, it is how we react
to it. We are each 100% responsible for
all our experiences.
– Louise Hay
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My assertion is that assuming full
responsibility allows you to be the most
effective, powerful, and creative in the
face of all circumstances.
– John Hanley
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I believe it is prompt accountability for
one’s choices, a willing acceptance of
responsibility for one’s thoughts, behavior,
and actions that make [the soul] powerful.
– Alice Walker
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Teachers who care accept no excuses.
– William Glasser
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A democratic form of government, a
democratic way of life, presupposes free
public education over a long period; it
presupposes also an education for
personal responsibility that too often is
neglected.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
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The object of teaching personal
responsibility is to have the student
substitute for the question “Who’s to
blame?” the question “What needs to be
done?”
– Nathaniel Branden
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Personal responsibility is the brick and
mortar of power.
– Shelby Steele
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves that we are underlings.
– William Shakespeare
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Learning is facilitated when the student
participates responsibly in the learning
process.
– Carl Rogers
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When the freedom they wished for most
was freedom from responsibility, then
Athens ceased to be free and was never
free again.
– Edith Hamilton
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The willingness to accept responsibility for
one’s own life is the source from which
self-respect springs.
– Joan Didion
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I found that the more I viewed myself as
totally responsible for my life, the more in
control I seemed to be of the goals I
wanted to achieve.
– Charles J. Givens
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Can’t nothing make your life work if you
ain’t the architect.
– Terry McMillan
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Power belongs to the people who take
responsibility; it flows to those who claim
creation. There is no power in
victimhood.
– Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks
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Be the chess player, not the chess piece.
– Ralph Charell
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The individual who sees himself and his
situation clearly and who freely takes
responsibility for that self and for that
situation is a very different person from
the one who is simply in the grip of
outside circumstances.
– Carl Rogers
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By saying I'm not responsible, I make
myself a powerless victim.
– Stephen Covey
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