Quotes About Responsibility

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then shalt thou know what is in thee.

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life to carry out a concrete assignment which demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is as unique as his specific opportunity to implement it.

Optimists believe that their own actions result in positive things happening, that they are responsible for their own happiness, and that they can expect more good things to happen in the future. It deals with pain and hardship better than their pessimistic counterparts.

Work is an essential part of being alive. Your work is your identity.

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.

It is very easy to overestimate the importance of our own achievements in comparison with what we owe others.

Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.

A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

Don't worry if you borrow, but worry if you lend.

Conservatives are all about self reliance until something goes wrong. Then they're all about finding someone else to blame.

No one can cheat you out of ultimate success but yourself.

No man who is not willing to help himself has any right to apply to his friends, or to the gods.

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you, it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts, hence grappling with hard work & with the ability to say I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one's self-respect.

After multiple times of that happening, no one is going to bad for you, its you're own fault hun, have some respect for you're self.

Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

Ultimately, whatever is in your reality is your responsibility.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.

Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.