Quotes About Self-responsibility

Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

In one case, you're hoping someone else will do the right thing. In the other case, you're directing your own life, even if someone else does something stupid. Guess which path is going to be more successful.

You are not the best person to talk to you about you right now. There is a difference, I point out to them, between self- blame and self-responsibility, which is a corollary to something Jack Kornfield said: 'A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself.

You're responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it's up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do it for you -- for any of you.

What we think about ourselves becomes the truth for us. I believe that everyone, myself included, is responsible for everything in our lives, the best and the worst. Every thought we think is creating our future. Each one of us creates our experiences by our thoughts and our feelings. The thoughts we think and the words we speak create our experiences.

I Find That Resentment, Criticism, Guilt, and Fear Cause More Problems Than Anything Else These four things cause the major problems in our bodies and in our lives. These feelings come from blaming others and not taking responsibility for our own experiences. You see, if we are all responsible for everything in our lives, then there is no one to blame. Whatever is happening "out there" is only a mirror of our own inner thinking.

If you don't run your own life, someone else will

There's nothing more tedious than a grown man blaming his parents, birth or otherwise, for all the things that have gone wrong in his life.

Never complain about what you allow.

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

That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.

You will never become successful as long as you continue to blame someone or something else for your lack of success.

If you want to be successful, you have to take 100% responsibility for everything that you experience in your life.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It's quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don't expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself.

A pitcher never gets me out. I get myself out. That's no disrespect to the pitcher, but there should be no excuse for failure. You can't have an excuse to fail.

Don't blame them for using you, blame YOURSELF for giving them something to use.

When all is said and done, the only person you have to answer to is yourself.

You have the power to make your life happy or miserable, no one else. So do not give anyone the chance to try and make you unhappy.

You can never really live anyone else's life, not even your child's. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you've become yourself.

I'm trying to make excuses for being tired and cranky - but it's all me. Master of my own sleep deprivation.

There's a difference between owning your choices and blaming yourself.

If we all started using the Self Care System, there would hardly be need for the Medical System