Quotes About Self-responsibility

I am responsible for no one but myself.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you're on your own.

To let someone make you angry is always a mistake.

Es mi responsabilidad apartarme de lo que me daña. Es mi responsabilidad defenderme de los que me hacen daño. Es mi responsabilidad hacerme cargo de lo que me pasa y saber mi cuota de participación en los hechos.

To evolve out of this position of psychological immaturity to the courage of self-responsibility and assurance requires a death and a resurrection. That's the basic motif of the universal hero's journey—leaving one condition and finding the source of life to bring you forth into a richer or mature condition.

Life is a do-it-yourself project

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

If you make up your own mind, you can only blame yourself.

At the end of the day, I feel like I have no one to blame but myself if I'm not satisfied with how I look on the runway.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

We lived longer but at a price. We had to be our own children, having none.

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities ?I did it to myself. It wasn't society... it wasn't a pusher, it wasn't being blind or being black or being poor. It was all my doing.

The best part of being on your own is not really having to answer to anybody. Not that when you're in a relationship you should really have to answer to somebody then, either. Just the freedom of not checking in with someone all the time is nice.

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.

We want to set aside time for our creative work, but we feel we should do something else instead. As blocked creatives, we focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our responsibilities to others. We tend to think such behavior makes us good people. It doesn't. It makes us frustrated people.

Out here a man settles his own problems.

Keeping accounts, sir, is of no use when a man is spending his own money, and has nobody to whom he is to account. You won't eat less beef today because you have written down what it cost yesterday.

Your mother doesn't own you. Your father doesn't own you. You own you.

Never complain about what you permit.

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.

Clean your home first before complaining about others.

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.