Quotes on Self Responsibility

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

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.

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.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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.

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

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.

The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.