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Quotes About Self-responsibility

I Chose to be an active participant in my life rather than a spectator.
~ Robin McGraw
we are not humans from the start; we need to become human. Toward this end, we need the insight "that only we are responsible for ourselves, that accusations that we have missed our life's calling can be directed only at us, not some higher powers". We are in no need of the delusion of a supernatural world, because the very task of becoming human is the truly colossal achievement.
~ Rudiger Safranski
Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.
~ Tony DiCicco
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
~ William J. H. Boetcker
Don't blame the situation, don't blame other people
~ Gatot Soedarto
More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man - he - himself.
~ Gabriel Heatter
The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
I guess what I'm trying to say is that you can't live somebody else's life for them. They have to make their own choices, and sometimes all we can do is learn to live with them.
~ Amanda Hocking
Only when we accept full responsibility for our lives will we have the confidence and courage to risk.
~ Stacy Allison
I'm the only one that can be held accountable for the way my life turns out.
~ Colleen Hoover
My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'
~ Magdalena Neuner
I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that.
~ Kiri Te Kanawa
We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.
~ Bob Nelson
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
~ Rabbi Hillel
Sooner or later, if they are to be healed, they must learn that the entirety of one's adult life is a series of personal choices, decisions.
~ M. Scott Peck
If you don't take control of yourcareer development, it's highly unlikely that anyone else will!
~ Derric Yuh Ndim
There are no victims in life, we are all volunteers. Our decisions create our experiences.
~ Mensah Oteh
Stop Blaming. Take responsibility for your thoughts and your actions.
~ Dee Dee Artner
You aren't accountable to anyone, teachers or family but to yourself. Make sure your surrounding s are clean in all aspects
~ Vinod Rai
To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents.
~ Maya Angelou
Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.
~ Haruki Murakami
I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.
~ Byron Katie
The law of karma states unequivocally that though we cannot see the connections, we can be sure that everything that happens to us, good and bad, originated once in something we did or thought. We ourselves are responsible for what happens to us, whether or not we can understand how. It follows that we can change what happens to us by changing ourselves; we can take our destiny into our own hands.
~ Eknath Easwaran