Quotes About Self-responsibility

Others may have it in their power to affect how and even whether you live, but they do not, say the Stoics, have it in their power to ruin your life. Only you can ruin it, by failing to live in accordance with the correct values. The Stoics believed in social reform, but they also believed in personal transformation.

If a person names as his three favorites of my books Stranger, Harsh Mistress, and Starship Troopers Ã¢â'¬Â¦ then I believe that he has grokked what I meant. But if he likes one—but not the other two—I am certain that he has misunderstood me, he has picked out points—and misunderstood what he picked. If he picks 2 of 3, then there is hope, 1 of 3—no hope. All three books are on one subject: Freedom and Self-Responsibility.28 And

know that nothing anyone ever does to you can be as terrible as what you do yourself. Remember that.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

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.

I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

the government can do nothing for you. But you can do everything for yourselves

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

My happiness isn't connected to my husband's or my boss's or my children's behavior. You have control over your own actions, your own well-being.

No one is in charge of your happiness except you.

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.

The next major advance in the health of the American people will be determined by what the individual is willing to do for himself.

I defy anybody to say what are the rights of a citizen, if they do not include the control of his own diet in relation to his own health.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

It makes sense that no one else can cause you pain. That's your job.

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

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

Only you can change yourself, no one else can.

Fluir significa aceptar que nadie más que uno mismo es el responsable de lo que nos pasa, aceptar que lo que acontece es siempre un reflejo de nosotros mismos y una oportunidad para crecer. Crecer significa acercarse a lo que verdaderamente somos y esto es la totalidad en la que todo lo que sucede acontece dentro. En esta condición no existe lo externo sino solamente uno mismo.

El motivo de que estés atrapado es lo que llamamos «la importancia personal». La importancia personal, o el tomarse las cosas personalmente, es la expresión máxima del egoísmo, porque consideramos que todo gira a nuestro alrededor. Durante el periodo de nuestra educación (o de nuestra domesticación), aprendimos a tomarnos todas las cosas de forma personal. Creemos que somos responsables de todo. ¡Yo, yo, yo y siempre yo!

Taking responsibility means you don't blame anyone else for your difficulties. It also means that you don't blame yourself.

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

One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.