If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

About Holly Lisle

Holly Lisle (October 8, 1960 – August 27, 2024) was an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, paranormal romance and romantic suspense novels. She was also known for her work in educating writers, including her e-book Mugging the Muse: Writing Fiction for Love And Money, starting the Forward Motion Writers'...

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I would rather be right and die than be wrong and kill.

You must learn to face the fact, always, that you choose to do what you do, and that everything you do affects not only you but others.

Actions have consequences… first rule of life. And the second rule is this—you are the only one responsible for your own actions.

The only place you will be accepted is the place you make for yourself.

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Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

—G. M. Trevelyan

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

—Benvenuto Cellini

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

—Abraham Lincoln

You alone are responsible for what you do, don't do, or how you respond to what's done to you.

—Darren Hardy in The Compound Effect

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The price of greatness is responsibility.

—Winston Churchill

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