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…we aren’t responsibility for creating all the bad things that happen to us. But we can claim responsibility for the bad things that happen and learn a lot about ourselves by doing so. It all depends on whether you think of responsibility as something you are or as something you do. For us, the onlyuseful way of thinking about responsibility is as something we do. We use an operational definition of responsibility, not a theoretical one: Responsibility is an action you take, not a quality that can be assigned. A judge and jury can assign responsibility to a criminal for an act, but that criminal’s life will not begin to change until he or she makes a conscious choice to take responsibility…

The key point is this: There is tremendous healing power in taking responsibility for something right now in the present, but no healing value in looking back to the past to blame yourself or anyone else.

~ Gay & Katie Hendricks Quotes from Lasting Love
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Rich people…take responsibility for the results in their lives and act upon the mind-set “It will work because I’ll make it work.”

~ T. Harv Eker Quotes from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
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Anger is your clue that you are not taking responsibility.

~ Susan Jeffers Quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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Taking responsibility means being aware of where and when you are NOT taking responsibility so that you can eventually change.

~ Susan Jeffers Quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself… Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don’t make yourself a victim of yourself!

~ Susan Jeffers Quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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Taking responsibility means never blaming anyone else for anything you are being, doing, having, or feeling.

~ Susan Jeffers Quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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Are you a “victim,” or are you taking responsibility for your life?

~ Susan Jeffers Quotes from Feel the Fear…And Do It Anyway
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Responsibility of any kind can seem intimidating and for this reason man may often be afraid of truly deep relationships with other human beings. A relationship suggests to him the most extreme of responsibilities. It implies a burden, a restriction of freedom, seldom the converse. A student in love class, for instance, commented, “I’ve always been afraid of deep relationship because of the responsibility it seemed to impose. I was afraid of the demands it would make of me and I worried I wouldn’t be able to meet those demands. I was amazed to find that when I did get the courage to form a relationship, I actually became stronger. I acquired two minds instead of one, four hands, four arms, four legs, and another’s world. In joining forces with someone, I got twice the strength to grow, with twice as many alternatives. Now it’s easier for me to love others. I am stronger and I am less afraid.” He had discovered an important insight.

~ Leo Buscaglia Quotes from Love
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