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Responsibility
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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from A Separate Reality
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We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.
~ Carlos Castaneda Quotes from Journey to Ixtlan
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Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So can you.
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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.
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A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.
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By leadership, I mean taking complete responsibility for an organization's well-being and growth, and changing it for the better. Real leadership is not about prestige, power or status. It is about responsibility.
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Frozen in fear, you avoid responsibility because you think your experience is beyond your control. This stance keeps you from making decisions, solving problems, or going after what you want in life.
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Look at the word responsibility—“response-abilityâ€â€”the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
~ Stephen R. Covey Quotes from The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People p. 71

