Top 94 Your Own Responsibility Quotes
#1. Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.
Anne Holm
#2. Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#3. All of us are interested in things outside of our stewardships, and we should be, but the most important way to do anything about them is to magnify our own stewardships. When you focus on your own responsibility, you become relatively unconcerned with other peoples stewardships.
Stephen R. Covey
#4. if you think the corporations are evil and it's the government's job to make them moral, you're deflecting your own responsibility to civics. You're making the government your big brother and the corporation the evil bully your big brother's supposed to keep off you at recess.
David Foster Wallace
#5. The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion.
D.H. Lawrence
#6. We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all ... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility.
Chogyam Trungpa
#7. Your career is your own responsibility. Your employer is not your mother.
Jurgen Appelo
#8. The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think."
Byron Katie
#9. It's none of your concern what others say or think about you. Your happiness is your own responsibility.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#10. You can't blame your crimes on someone else; they're your own responsibility.
Kanae Minato
#11. My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most.
Jennifer Garner
#12. Other Christians may try to tell you what your values should be, but they are not perfect. You must take responsibility for your own choices.
Henry Cloud
#13. Because it's my fault, you see. I did it. And you must always clean up your own messes, even when your messes look just like you and curtsy very viciously when what they mean is, I am going to make trouble forever and ever.
Catherynne M Valente
#14. 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
#15. Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.
Jon Katz
#16. I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.
Story Musgrave
#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. You must take responsibility for your own life and make full use of your gifts.
Joanne Guidoccio
#19. Once your decisions take on the impractical responsibility of validating the choices of others, your decisions cease to be your own.
Kirk DeMatas
#20. Pick your associates well, back them fully, empower them with both accountability and responsibility, and they will produce far more than you ever will achieve on your own.
Michael Useem
#21. You have to take responsibility and become the architect of your own success by learning what it takes to navigate the twists and turns of a long career, because if you don't take responsibility for your own success, nothing will happen.
Martin Yate
#22. When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future.
Zig Ziglar
#23. 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
#24. As a leader, you have to take responsibility for your own failures as well as successes. That's the only way you'll learn.
If you keep learning, you'll improve.
If you improve, your leadership will get better.
And in time, you will earn the right to lead on the level you deserve.
John C. Maxwell
#25. When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands.
Jeff Olson
#26. You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.
Cecelia Ahern
#27. You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
Max Brooks
#28. If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.
Holly Lisle
#29. You can live in heaven right now. Heaven or hell is here and now; you don't need to wait to die. If you take responsibility for your own life, for your own actions, then your future is in your hands, and you can live in heaven while your body is alive.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#30. You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.
Chogyam Trungpa
#31. I think the responsibility of pop stars is to liberate the masses. In that everyone can be whatever they wanna be. You can march to your own beat. It's so hard sometimes in our country because conformity is the way things are pushed.
Adam Lambert
#32. The blackouts were horrible. It was hideous to let those nights slide into a crack in the ground. But even scarier was to take responsibility for the mess I'd made. Even scarier was to remember your own life.
Sarah Hepola
#33. You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.
Mao Dun
#34. The freedom to do your own thing ends when you have obligations and responsibilities. If you want to fail yourself - you can - but you cannot do your own thing if you have responsibilities to team members.
Lou Holtz
#35. The Jesus Creed teaches us that a disciple's responsibility is to love God by following Jesus. You only follow someone else when your own lights or sense of direction are not good enough.
Scot McKnight
#36. Every facet, every department of your mind, is to be programmed by you. And unless you assume your rightful responsibility, and begin to program your own mind, the world will program it for you.
Jack Kornfield
#37. You can never be free from limitation until you are willing to recognize that you and you alone are responsible for what you are. After you have passed infancy you are not a victim of anything but your own thinking.
Margery Wilson
#38. Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.
Arlo Guthrie
#39. 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
#40. Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.
Wayne Dyer
#41. You can never be fully human unless you've discovered the humanity in other human beings. Don't close your eyes to the injustices of your own country by trying to solve the injustices of another country. That's an evasion of Christian responsibility.
Beyers Naude
#42. Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life
Norman Cousins
#43. I can accept no responsibility for any changes in your existence, miraculous or otherwise. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must have your own life because if you haven't had at least that, what have you had?
Martin Firrell
#44. No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own.
Marty Rubin
#45. When you no longer make the distinction between the universe and how you are acting upon it, you are really on your own and so acquire a sense of responsibility.
Alan W. Watts
#46. 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
#47. Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life.
Kathy Mckeon
#48. Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.
Timothy Leary
#49. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
Theodore Newton Vail
#50. Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility.
Eric Fischl
#51. Your circumstance is ultimately tied to your choices; you create your own destiny. Individual development is up to you - it is your responsibility. You have all eternity to grow and progress to become all you can be. Whether the journey is swift of protracted is ultimately in your hands.
Mark Ireland
#52. I think part of being an artist is having the ability to define your own responsibilities. I certainly wouldn't prescribe any. As far as I'm concerned, my biggest responsibility is to my own imagination. We're all conduits. Art preceded me, and it'll be here long after I'm gone.
Pierre Coupey
#53. Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea
Dennis Prager
#54. It is your life...OWN IT! Your life purpose empowers you and enables you to live life abundantly. Empowerment begins by taking responsibility for your life and being accountable for your actions. Empowerment is the courage to live passionately and purposefully each day
Thomas Narofsky
#55. Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.
Frank Herbert
#56. The more you sense the rareness and value of your own life, the more you realize that how you use it, how you manifest it, is all your responsibility. We face such a big task, so naturally we sit down for a while.
Kobun Chino Otogawa Roshi
#57. Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.
Dalton Trumbo
#58. You don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own
Kerry E. Wagner
#59. The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you.
Rajneesh
#60. If you can't take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it.
Jennifer Hudson
#61. You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.
Terence McKenna
#62. 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
#63. A bad life doesn't justify bad behavior. It's time to stop playing the blame game and take responsibility for your own actions. You have control of your life from here.
Blaque Diamond
#64. Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts.
Napoleon Hill
#65. Don't try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
Vishwas Chavan
#66. 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
#68. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
Leo Buscaglia
#69. If you don't want your past to own you, try owning your past.
Dan Pearce
#70. It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. - GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrakis It
Brian Herbert
#71. Everything you have, whether it's money or stuff, is an obligation. It is as much your duty to care for and nurture any object you own as it would be if that object were your child. All possessions come with responsibilities. More possessions equals greater responsibility.
Brad Warner
#72. Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness.
Edwin Louis Cole
#73. 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
#74. Everybody has a responsibility for what they put out into the world. Rather than trying to figure out what other people should be doing, work on your own interactions in the world and whatever influence they have. All of it has an effect.
Adam Yauch
#75. Your generation has no sense of responsibility to a group, a calling higher than your own. You treat random friends like family and family like strangers. You want to dither your life away, pursuing one pleasure after another. That is not a path; that is a waste of life.
Liz Braswell
#76. You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.
Adam Goucher
#77. The moment you hand over YOUR responsibility to manage your own rights, morality, and freedoms - to the government, that is the moment democracy fails.
Christina Engela
#78. Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do.
Dave Ramsey
#79. You plant your own garden instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. In other words, take responsibility for your own needs and your own happiness.
Maggi Myers
#80. Don't blame anyone or anything for your situation or problems. When you do that, you are saying that you are powerless over your own life - which is utter crap. An empowering step to reclaiming your life is taking responsibility.
Jillian Michaels
#81. 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
#82. You, alone, chose and accepted responsibility for your path, and that is why you will leave this chamber on your own two feet.
Jennifer Turner
#83. Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.
Rodolfo Costa
#84. 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
#85. Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being
Linda S. Reeves
#86. It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness.
Josei Toda
#87. Women are now very comfortable to have babies into their late 30s. You can be a father in your 50s. I'm not saying it's for everybody, and I think people have to get their own life secure before they take on the responsibility of a partner and children.
Michael Douglas
#88. One of the important things to learn about parenting is that the more you worry about a child, the less the child will worry abouthim- or herself ... instead of worrying, watch with fascination and wonder as your child's life unfolds, and help the child take responsibility for his or her own life.
Charlotte Sophia Kasl
#89. True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.
F. Paul Wilson
#90. Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child
Miguel Syjuco
#91. Be your own worst critic.
When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't.
Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will find out what you're capable of.
Paul Arden
#92. Just imagine how fast, innovative and excellent your business will be once every single teammate - from the janitor to the executive - begins to see themselves as the CEO of their own area of responsibility.
Robin S. Sharma
#93. To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#94. I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it's time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis.
Jonathan Tropper
