Quotes About Self-responsibility

I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story.

There is a false saying: "How can someone who can't save himself save others?" Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?

I can only control my own performance. If I do my best, then I can feel good at the end of the day.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

My generation are the neurotic ones. Therapists' offices all over the world are full of patients blaming their parents for their own failings.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

People suffer all their life long, under the foolish superstition that they can be cheated. But it is impossible for a person to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Your life will be what you create it as, and no one will stand in judgment of it, now or ever.

you are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok. Be the hero of your own story and never, ever let them make you the victim.

You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.

Sea inteligente, respete su vida. ¡Deténgase! ¡Piense! ¡Obsérvese! ¡Percíbase! Ningún psiquiatra o psicólogo puede hacerlo por usted.

We're living in a society where you need to be accountable for your actions, for your behavior - for yourself. To sit back and be reactive would be to allow your children to make big mistakes without the benefit of your wisdom being bestowed on them. It's not what my parents taught me.

I'm a grown man. I don't point fingers.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Linus might come over. He might not. Either way is fine. Either way, his decision is about himself, not about you. You are not responsible for his feelings.

If you want to change people around you, Start from yourself.

While parents are responsible for the stamp of character, as well as for the education and training, of their sons and daughters, it is still true that our position and usefulness in the world depend, to a great degree, upon our own course of action.

there are two people living inside of me.. most conveniently, as I can always put the blame on someone else

We have taken control of biology, but not of ourselves.

Place nothing above the verdict of your own mind.

Happiness is not this thing for other people. It is for you. It is for me. It is for all of us. We all get an ending, Whether or not it's happy is up to us.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

themselves and their own

I'm all for holding each other accountable, but it feels as if we're hurling toward a society of finger-pointers, because we don't hold ourselves accountable for anything.