Quotes on Responsibility For Your Life

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

One of the first things successful people realize is the old adage, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” That is, for you, the fact that your success and your course is up to you. This doesn’t mean that you do it all alone. It simply means that you take responsibility for your life and your career.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

It is time to stop looking outside yourself for the answers to why you haven't created the life and results you want, for it is you who creates the quality of life you lead and the results you produce. You-no one else! To achieve major success in life-to achieve those things that are most important to you-you must assume 100% responsibility for your life. Nothing less will do.

Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.