Quotes About Self-responsibility

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Make sure your mistakes are your own, not somebody else's." "Nobody but you can take responsibility for your life.

When you stop blaming others for where you are in life, that is when you can start to discover the person within you.

You become more alive, when you take charge of your own life.

Don't look at the mistakes of others. Start with you, and your own life. Instead of having the need to control other people or their circumstances.

Ninety percent of people want the direction of their life to change, but they forget they're the ones driving the car. You have to turn the wheel.

Women will never be taken seriously until they accept full responsibility for their sexuality.

Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

We're responsible. We have control. The clear nature of our mind is always there, waiting to be revealed when the clouds of the disturbing attitudes are dispelled. This is our human beauty; this is our potential.

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

There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

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

Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

You must learn to assume responsibility for the circumstances of your life without any accompanying guilt.

The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, How long am I going to be dead? With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever.

The next time you are contemplating a decision in which you are debating whether or not to take charge of yourself, to make your own choice, ask yourself an important question, "How long am I going to be dead?" With that eternal perspective, you can now make your own choice and leave the worrying, the fears, the question of whether you can afford it and the guilt to those who are going to be alive forever.

But at some point, a full-grown woman has to be accountable for her own self, and for the choices she's made.

It's not them, but we, who have to solve our problems.

The answer is simple: You are you, the person who will live with the consequences of what you do. No one else can be responsible, because no one else will experience the consequences of your actions as you will.

one of my biggest illusions was that other people were meant to assuage my anxiety by filling some lack that I was responsible for filling myself. If I wanted to give, the giving had to be "for fun and for free." The giving couldn't be out of guilt, nor because I secretly wanted to get something back, nor because I wanted the other person to respond in such a way as to satisfy my longing to be useful. Thérèse

If anything occurs that causes your price to go down, it's a self-inflicted wound.

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.