Quotes About Self-responsibility

The good thing about being in one's midtwenties is that you know nothing bad is going to happen if you don't return people's texts and voice mails

Today, I will understand that I hold the key to my freedom. I will stop participating in my oppression and victimization. I will take responsibility for myself, and let others do as they may.

Not only can we lovingly detach from other people and take care of ourselves, it is our primary responsibility in life to do that. To

While it is positive for young black males and females to learn discipline and self-responsibility, those attitudes, values, and habits of being can be taught with pedagogical strategies that are liberatory, that do not rely on coercive control and punishment to reinforce positive behavior.

The bottom line was that we have only ourselves to blame. We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities

Each person should examine his own work … not in respect to someone else. For each person will have to carry his own load. Galatians 6:4–5

We accept responsibility for ourselves when we acknowledge that ultimately there are no answers outside of ourselves, and no gurus, no teachers, and no philisophies that can solve the problems of our lives. They can only suggest, guide, and inspire. It is our dedication to living with open hearts and our commitment to the day-to-day details of our lives that will transform us.

Another person's life is that person's life. You can't take responsibility.

If I complain about a traffic jam, I have no one to blame but myself.

The key to project success is being proactive. Instead of waiting for others to tell you what to do,

I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Expectation wasn't just about what people expected of you. It was about what you expected of yourself.

I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.

We immediately become more effective when we decide to change ourselves rather than asking things to change for us.

A sin is anything that you do which goes against yourself. Everything you feel or believe or say that goes against yourself is a sin. You go against yourself when you judge or blame yourself for anything. Being without sin is exactly the opposite. Being impeccable is not going against yourself. When you are impeccable, you take responsibility for your actions, but you do not judge or blame yourself

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself and be lenient to everyone else." —HENRY WARD BEECHER, NINETEENTH-CENTURY CLERGYMAN

Self-realization is the sweetest thing. It shows us how we are fully responsible for ourselves, and that is where we find our freedom.

Hurt feelings or discomfort of any kind cannot be caused by another person. No one outside you can hurt you. That's not possible. Only when you believe a story about them can you be hurt. So you're the one who's hurting yourself. This is very good news, because it means that you don't have to get someone else to stop hurting you or to change in any way. You're the one who can stop hurting you. You're the only one.

It's not your job to like me. It's mine!

And I began to realize that ultimately I was responsible for my own happiness, that blaming other people was counterproductive.

A man has the right to be stupid on his own account, but not on behalf of others.

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. I