- “Keep your mind positive by accepting complete responsibility for yourself and for everything that happens to you. Refuse to criticize others, complain, or blame others for anything. Resolve to make progress rather than excuses. Keep your thoughts and your energy focused forward, on what you can do right now to improve your life, and let the rest go.” Eat That Frog, Brian Tracy, Page 88
- “By Victor Davis Hanson Until the millennium arrives and countries cease trying to enslave others, it will be necessary to accept one’s responsibilities and to be willing to make sacrifices for one’s country—as my comrades did. As the troops used to say, “If the country is good enough to live in, it’s good enough to fight for.” With privilege goes responsibility.” With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (E.B. Sledge)- Page 1
- “I Find That Resentment, Criticism, Guilt, and Fear Cause More Problems Than Anything Else. These four things cause the major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no one to blame.” You Can Heal Your Life (Louise Hay)- Page 6
- “Children need to be nurtured and encouraged,” Hausner points out, “and they need tolerance when they make mistakes, as well as the willingness to allow them to make their own choices. Above all, they need opportunities to take charge of themselves and to assume personal responsibility if they are eventually to manage their own lives.” Wealth in Families Third Edition (Charles W. Collier) Page 41-42
- “In The Tao of Leadership, John Heider stresses the importance of interfering as little as possible. “Rules reduce freedom and responsibility,” he writes. “Enforcement of rules is coercive and manipulative, which diminishes spontaneity and absorbs group energy. The more coercive you are, the more resistant the group will become.” Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success. Phil Jackson and Hugh Delehanty. Page 121
- “Being irresponsible is not neutral,” Smith says. “When you’re irresponsible, someone becomes responsible for what you’ve been irresponsible for.” Sherman Smith
- “This will require your unselfish devotion, your unyielding loyalty and faith. You will serve in many capacities before your lives are complete. Some of them may seem small, but there is no small or unimportant calling in this Church. Every calling is important. Every calling is necessary to the advancement of the work. Never demean a responsibility in the Church.” Manual, Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Gordon B Hinkley. Chapter 14, Losing Ourselves in the Service of Others
- “President Gordon B. Hinckley’s mother, Ada Bitner Hinckley, often said that a happy attitude and smiling countenance could boost one over almost any misfortune and that every individual was responsible for his own happiness. His father, Bryant S. Hinckley, also had an inherently positive outlook. President Hinckley recalled, When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve. Influenced by his parents’ counsel and example, young Gordon Hinckley learned to approach life with optimism and faith.” Manual, Teachings of Gordon B. Hinckley, Chapter 3, Cultivating an Attitude of Happiness and a Spirit of Optimism