Quotes about Responsibility
If we do not teach our children, societ will. And they-and we-will live with the results.
— Stephen Covey
Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her through or around these challenges, and I'll show you supreme power of choice.
— Stephen Covey
The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.
— Stephen Covey
Anytime we think the problem is "out there," that thought is the problem. We empower what's out there to control us.
— Stephen Covey
We are free to choose our actions, based on our knowledge of correct principles, but we are not free to choose the consequences of those actions. Remember, "If you pick up one end of the stick, you pick up the other.
— Stephen Covey
There's no way we can escape accountability. We do make a difference—one way or the other. We are responsible for the impact of our lives.
— Stephen Covey
I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday
— Stephen Covey
Show me someone who is humble enough to accept and take responsibility for his or her circumstances and courageous enough to take whatever initiative is necessary to creatively work his or her way through or around these challenges, and I'll show you the supreme power of choice.
— Stephen Covey
The key to growth is to learn to make promises and to keep them.
— Stephen Covey
Look at the word responsibility—"response-ability"—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior.
— Stephen Covey
love is a verb. Reactive people make it a feeling. They're driven by feelings.
— Stephen Covey
Did you ever consider how ridiculous it would be to try to cram on a farm—to forget to plant in the spring, play all summer and then cram in the fall to bring in the harvest? The farm is a natural system. The price must be paid and the process followed. You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.
— Stephen Covey