Self Responsibility Quotes

Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.

Tell everyone you know: "My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook." And then demonstrate it. Be happy, no matter what they're doing. Practice feeling good, no matter what. And before you know it, you will not give anyone else responsibility for the way you feel-and then, you'll love them all. Because the only reason you don't love them, is because you're using them as your excuse to not feel good.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

I am the source of my own suffering, because of the habits of my mind.

Your success and happiness start with you.

Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments

Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.

Stop waiting for others to change. Recognize that every person has the right to be whatever they choose-even if you irritate yourself about it.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy.

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Every duty is a charge, but the charge of oneself is the root of all others.

How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.

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

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates his life. And he adapts his mind to that regulating factor, he ceases to accuse others as the cause of his condition, and builds himself up in strong and noble thoughts; ceases to kick against circumstances, but begins to use them as aids to his more rapid progress, and as a means of the hidden powers and possibilities within himself.

You owe it to yourself not to permit your emotions to place your happiness in the keeping of another person.

Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.'

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It's time to change. It's time to live life at a new level.

Trying to “fix” the people in your life that cause you pain is like massaging your shoes because your feet ache.

You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light.

The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It is very important that we each take responsibility for ourselves. Sustain mindfulness 24 hours a day. Thank you. That is all.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"

A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character.

Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.

Denn was ist Freiheit? Dasz man den Willen zur Selbstverantwortlichkeit hat.

The road to success, for me, was a long and arduous journey, strewn with obstacles and traps, pitfalls and hurdles-all created by myself. Painful as it is, I speak of those sad and frustrating times whenever I am invited to address sales gatherings, corporate conventions, and success rallies, in the hope that my personal experiences will serve as sufficient evidence for all who hear me that they have it in their own power to make their lives as glorious or as terrible as they choose.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. No person will make you happy unless you decide to be happy. Your happiness will not come to you. It can only come from you.

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.