Quotes About Self-responsibility

It's not your job to like me - it's mine

I Believe That Our Background And Circumstances May Have Influenced Who We Are, But We Are Responsible For Who We Become..

As soon as you stop making everyone else responsible for your happiness, the happier you'll be.

No one holds the key to your happiness, except you.

You have control over your life. Don't blame others. You have the power to change your life at any time and turn your worries into wisdom.

The best person who can help you out of your problems is the one you see in the mirror.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

Your name was the only thing you ever really owned, for good or for bad; that choice was yours.

You have a blank piece of paper, Glenford, and what you eventually write on it is of your own doing. Good or bad, you have to decide for yourself.

You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.

Let every man mind his own business.

The truth is, it's impossible for any parent to know what his or her child will be like as an adult. But we can tell you that the sensory smart child of sensory smart parents is a person who is empowered to take responsibility for himself, for his body, and for his behavior. That's an outstanding quality any parent would be proud to see in a child.

I suppose I'm the one responsible for destroying myself.

Individuals must take responsibility for their choices and cannot hide behind convention or rules.

Whether or not you go in a positive direction depends entirely on you. You have to be your own teacher and try to figure out what it takes to accomplish your goals. You have to be your own judge and try to get yourself to do the right thing and stop yourself from doing the wrong thing. Take responsibility for yourself. (17th Karmapa)

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.

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

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

If you accept excuses from others, it's usually because you have accepted your own excuse.

Every man is the author of his own life.