Responsibility For Yourself Quotes

#1. Placing blame on others is easy. Taking responsibility for yourself is empowering.

Tony DiCicco

#2. If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.

Leonard Jacobson

#3. The roots of the word 'anarchy' are 'an archos,' 'no leaders,' which is not really about the kind of chaos that most people imagine when the word 'anarchy' is mentioned. I think that anarchy is, to the contrary, about taking personal responsibility for yourself.

Alan Moore

#4. For those who are able to work, work has to be seen as the best route out of poverty. For work is not just about more money - it is transformative. It's about taking responsibility for yourself and your family.

Iain Duncan Smith

#5. Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Wendy Wasserstein

#6. It is time to return to core values, time to get back to basics, to self-discipline and respect for the law, to consideration for the others, to accepting responsibility for yourself and your family - and not shuffling it off on other people and the state.

John Major

#7. I haven't had an easy life, but at some point, you have to take responsibility for yourself and shape who it is that you want to be. I have no time for moaners. I like to chase my dreams and surround myself with other people who are chasing their dreams, too.

Aimee Mullins

#8. Life is always moving, changing, shifting into its next shape. The movement is natural. It is how we evolve. Let the shifts happen. Take responsibility for yourself each step of the way. Trust the new shape and form of your world

Melody Beattie

#9. People always lecture the poor: "Take responsibility for yourself! Make something of yourself!" But with what raw materials are the poor to make something of themselves? People

Trevor Noah

#10. I was constantly told and challenged to live my life as a warrior. As a warrior, you assume responsibility for yourself. The warrior humbles himself. And the warrior learns the power of giving.

Billy Mills

#11. You could go two ways from there. You could keep on marinating in blame, in helpless submission to your circumstance. Or you could stop, just clean stop, and take up the liberating burden of responsibility for yourself.

Olivia Laing

#12. If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

#13. The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

O.J. Simpson

#14. I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Jason Giambi

#15. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.

Miya Yamanouchi

#16. Character in leadership comes down to two questions: Would you trade places with anyone under your command? Do you hold yourself to the same level of accountability as those for whom you bear responsibility?

Gary J. Byrne

#17. once you take responsibility for your own life, and empower yourself to create a life you love, you can then begin to have impact on the lives of others - and on the world.

Boni Lonnsburry

#18. People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

John C. Maxwell

#19. Taking responsibility for your life is the biggest challenge you will have, but it is also the most beautiful gift you can give yourself.

Steven Aitchison

#20. By spending years and years living entirely for yourself, thinking only about yourself, and having responsibility to no one but yourself, you end up inadvertently extending the introverted existence of a teenager deep into middle age.

Danielle Crittenden

#21. Support is not always easy to come by if you wait for the world to see your worth. Discover your own worth and the world will indeed follow your lead. Its the law of cause and effect! It has to happen. Support yourself.

Sereda Aleta Dailey

#22. So you ask yourself: Am I willing to take responsibility for my life, in word and in deed? If not, your chances of living a rich and fulfilling life are almost zero. If so, you have the potential for a joyous journey ahead.

Eric Greitens

#23. You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

Christopher Reeve

#24. Setting boundaries inevitably involves taking responsibility for your choices. You are the one who makes them. You are the one who must live with their consequences. And you are the one who may be keeping yourself from making the choices you could be happy with.

Henry Cloud

#25. It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do
or don't do.

Simone De Beauvoir

#26. If you know that God may soon be entrusting you with a particular ministry, then it's important that you look ahead to what may be awaiting you in the future and see how you can prepare yourself for it

Sunday Adelaja

#27. You make a name for yourself when you take on responsibilities and constantly solve problems

Sunday Adelaja

#28. It's time to care; it's time to take responsibility; it's time to lead; it's time for a change; it's time to be true to our greatest self; it's time to stop blaming others.

Steve Maraboli

#29. At a certain point, you realize you have a responsibility more behind yourself and your need for adrenaline. I'm glad I did things in my 20s that were more reckless.

Eddie Vedder

#30. The responsibility of caring and providing for a child can both give you strength or be paralyzing at times. Depending on the attitude you choose. Ultimately I think it is very valuable to anyone's personal growth having to care for someone else than just yourself.

Olof Arnalds

#31. If you take responsibility for what you are doing to yourself, how you produce your symptoms, how you produce your illness, how you produce your existence-the very moment you get in touch with yourself-growth begins, integration begins.

Frederick Salomon Perls

#32. Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

Tyra Banks

#33. You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.

Steve Pavlina

#34. Your greatest responsibility in your life is to be the best version of yourself. When you feel for what the soul believes that is who you become.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. It's amazing to think of the nutritional responsibility you have in cooking for a kid, which then makes you wonder if you're getting enough yourself.

Kyle MacLachlan

#36. Make a careful exploration of who you are and the work you have been given, and then sink yourself into that. Don't be impressed with yourself. Don't compare yourself with others. Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.

Lysa TerKeurst

#37. You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Grace Lee Boggs

#38. Respect and appreciate yourself.This is your responsibility for your soul.

Rajesh Walecha

#39. you are happy, those that truly love you will be happy for you no matter what path you choose. You will never please everyone in this world and you shouldn't take that responsibility onto yourself anyways.

Charlene Hartnady

#40. A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: "Do it yourself" is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.

Louis Kronenberger

#41. There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that.

Bill Kurtis

#42. If you don't take responsibility for programming yourself, then someone else will.

Paul McKenna

#43. I'm saying that you can create success for yourself but also understand that you have a responsibility to others.

Jonathan Tisch

#44. When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

Roger Crawford

#45. Take responsibility for your last bad decision, and then let it go. Don't blame others or make excuses for yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#46. For me there is a reluctance to be in front of cameras. I love making music but with that comes a lot of responsibility and you have to put yourself out there more.

Daniel Powter

#47. No one can listen to your body for you ... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#48. This is your life and you have the right and responsibility to make good decisions for yourself.

Bryant McGill

#49. It must be wonderful to be you, Dominic, and know that you alone have shaped yourself. It must be even more wonderful for other people, your mother and even God Himself for all I know, to know that. It absolves them of a terrible responsibility.

Jayne Bauling

#50. At some point you have to stop acting as though life is happening to you and acknowledge the ways you are happening to it. Once you take responsibility for your side of the street, you grant yourself the power to improve every aspect of your life by simply acting and behaving differently.

Jillian Michaels

#51. Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can't change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing

Jim Rohn

#52. Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions-it means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short.

Adrienne Rich

#53. Anything that lifts responsibility for our actions is addictive, I've found. So really, looking back, I'd have to say that was not the hard moment. The tough bit is always later, when you're held responsible for yourself again, and your life is expected to go on.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#54. You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#55. Good for you and be proud of yourself because you have your priorities in order. Be proud of yourself if you are responsible, reliable, persistent, and take your job and education seriously.

Ana Monnar

#56. Take responsibility for your life and count solely on yourself

Sunday Adelaja

#57. By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Wayne Dyer

#58. Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.

Terence McKenna

#59. Learn from me, for as I teach, I learn from you as well! Always be accountable to yourself and take complete responsibility for your own life. No one can do as much for you, as you can do for yourself ...

James A. Murphy

#60. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Leo Buscaglia

#61. Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Janet Morris

#62. Life is about choices, and you have the ability to choose. You always have had this ability. I suggest that not only do you have the ability, you have the responsibility to make choices for yourself. It is your life, and you are in the driver's seat, if you choose to be.

Lou Tice

#63. I know some people find the idea of soul mates romantic, or comforting, but to me believing in soul mates means absolving yourself of any responsibility for your own happiness. If a relationship doesn't work out
whoops! It wasn't meant to be. Fuck meant to be.

Anna Jarzab

#64. Check yourself often and correct your faults. Quit blaming others. Take responsibility for your own life. That's the only way you can grow!

Mufti Ismail Menk

#65. ... The use of your gift for good is your responsibility. You must decide for yourself.

Thomas Sweeney

#66. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.

Augusten Burroughs

#67. If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Lewis Thomas

#68. If you sincerely love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions.

Matthew Donnelly

#69. I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.

Brendan Fraser

#70. If you ruin your life, you will pay the price of rehabilitating yourself ... We are not punished for our sins, but by them. Liberty means responsibility.

Mike Cloud

#71. Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.

John O'Donohue

#72. To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now

Eckhart Tolle

#73. It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.

Josei Toda

#74. Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

Iyanla Vanzant

#75. The more you take responsibility for your attitudes, the more you can adjust yourself in a forward thinking manner.

Deborah Day

#76. The number one lesson I received from my father is to be responsible for yourself and your family. The responsibility you embrace is working, paying the bills, and coming home EACH night, just as a start.

Tony Gaskins

#77. Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.

Amelia Earhart

#78. I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

Trey Anastasio

#79. And I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, "Can I be of help?"

Maya Angelou