William Booth Quotes

In my life as a soldier and citizen, I have seen time and time again that inaction has dire consequences.

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

It's one of the things, certainly for me, anyway: I'm learning to take a bigger role in the things that I'm associated with.

There comes a time in everybody's life when it's no longer enough to point and say he or she should do it, but you have to answer yourself... That's why I put myself at the party's service.

Sometimes the most motivated person to change something is the one being held accountable at the moment.

If not now, then when ? If not you, then who ?

Make choices-not excuses.

Now what kind of an attitude is that, 'These things happen?' They only happen because this whole country is just full of people who, when these things happen, they just say, 'These things happen,' and that's why they happen! We gotta have control of what happens to us.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

It's time to break our ties with anything in us that would rather complain about its situation than go to work to change it.

Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.

Choosing to take responsibility for ourselves and for the consequences our choices create looks like hard work, but it really sets us free.

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

I behaved worse than anybody for 15 years, and you have to pay the price for that. I used to blame other people, then therapy made me realise I had to change.

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

One person's embarrassment is another person's accountability.

I have impeached myself by resigning.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now.

Someone had to change the world. And obviously I was the one for the job.

One day I realized that I wasn't getting anywhere by blaming other people for my circumstances. I finally understood: Even if you feel someone has wronged you or owes you something, no one is going to give you anything for free.