Denis Waitley Quotes

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

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.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

I may err in judgment, but I hope not in intention.

How could I get up there and say, 'People, we've got to do better,' when I was the poster child for everything that was wrong? I've always believed leaders don't ask others to do what they're unwilling to do.

Somewhere there's a score being kept, so you have an obligation to live life as well as you can, be as engaged as you can.

One of the things you learn in rehab is that you're responsible for your own actions.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

We're all given something to do. And when we don't follow what we're supposed to do, we always know when we're off track.

In dreams begins responsibility.

An artist is his own fault.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the 'why' for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any 'how.'

Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It's easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it's time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

One thing I realized, I was making too many excuses and not taking responsibility for how I was playing.

I can speak for my own actions.

Henry Ward Beecher, so the story goes, was once asked by a young preacher how he could keep his congregation wide awake and attentive during his sermons. Beecher replied that he always had a man watch for sleepers, with instructions, as soon as he saw anyone start nodding or dozing, to hasten to the pulpit and wake up the preacher. Aren't you and I usually less sensible? Would we not be inclined to have the watcher wake up not ourselves but the fellows caught sleeping? In other words, aren't we disposed always to blame others?