Michael Portillo Quotes

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

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

But there is a corollary to freedom and that's personal responsibility, and the real challenge is how you generate that personal responsibility without imposing it.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

I take accountability for my actions.

As a person, I think you should assume the responsibilities of your actions.

We need to hold ourselves accountable for the work we do and the choices we make.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Nobody's going to help me when I get in that ring. That's how I like it: the responsibility's on me, and whatever happens is down to me, nobody else.

I feel very strongly in my opinion that everyone is responsible to themselves for what they do.

A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing.

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

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

Let men decide firmly what they will not do, and they will be free to do vigorously what they ought to do.

People get DUIs, people get in fights with their boyfriends, it happens, life happens, but it's about being accountable for your actions. I don't know. I'm just not that girl, I don't go to clubs. I'm a pretty normal girl.