On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 1 Responsibility Responsibility...is...the ability to fulfill one's needs, and to do so in a way that does not deprive others of the ability to fulfill their needs. – Dr. William Glasser

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 2 Responsibility The more we practice the habit of acting from a position of responsibility, the more effective we become as human beings, and the more successful we become as managers of our lives. – Joyce Chapman

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 3 Responsibility I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul. – William E. Henley

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 4 Responsibility I do think that that the greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your own life. – Oprah Winfrey

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 5 Responsibility In our period of time, there is a shift of dominance to a new principle. The new principle is that you as an individual are the predominant creative force in your life. – Robert Fritz

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 6 Responsibility I am a Shawnee. I am the maker of my own fortune. – Tecumseh

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 7 Responsibility You are responsible for the eventual outcome of your life. You have been given the greatest power in the world--the power to choose. – Denis Waitley

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 8 Responsibility I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of our every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 9 Responsibility What the recent research on student learning has concluded is that the more actively students are involved in the learning process and take personal responsibility for their learning outcomes, the greater are the learning results. – Todd M. Davis & Patricia Hillman Murrell

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 10 Responsibility It is not what happens, it is how we react to it. We are each 100% responsible for all our experiences. – Louise Hay

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 11 Responsibility My assertion is that assuming full responsibility allows you to be the most effective, powerful, and creative in the face of all circumstances. – John Hanley

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 12 Responsibility I believe it is prompt accountability for one’s choices, a willing acceptance of responsibility for one’s thoughts, behavior, and actions that make [the soul] powerful. – Alice Walker

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 13 Responsibility Teachers who care accept no excuses. – William Glasser

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 14 Responsibility A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected. – Eleanor Roosevelt

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 15 Responsibility The object of teaching personal responsibility is to have the student substitute for the question “Who’s to blame?” the question “What needs to be done?” – Nathaniel Branden

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 16 Responsibility Personal responsibility is the brick and mortar of power. – Shelby Steele

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 17 Responsibility The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves that we are underlings. – William Shakespeare

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 18 Responsibility Learning is facilitated when the student participates responsibly in the learning process. – Carl Rogers

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 19 Responsibility When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edith Hamilton

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 20 Responsibility The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. – Joan Didion

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 21 Responsibility I found that the more I viewed myself as totally responsible for my life, the more in control I seemed to be of the goals I wanted to achieve. – Charles J. Givens

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 22 Responsibility Can’t nothing make your life work if you ain’t the architect. – Terry McMillan

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 23 Responsibility Power belongs to the people who take responsibility; it flows to those who claim creation. There is no power in victimhood. – Gay & Kathlyn Hendricks

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 24 Responsibility Be the chess player, not the chess piece. – Ralph Charell

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 25 Responsibility The individual who sees himself and his situation clearly and who freely takes responsibility for that self and for that situation is a very different person from the one who is simply in the grip of outside circumstances. – Carl Rogers

On Course, Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.Responsibility - 26 Responsibility By saying I'm not responsible, I make myself a powerless victim. – Stephen Covey