#Personal Responsibility Quotes

“Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”

“You're creating it all. Nobody else is doing it to you.”

“You... and only you choose your thoughts.”

“You cannot achieve someone else's goals.”

“I am always going to do my best, no matter where I am.”

“Others can get in your way temporarily, but only you can get out of your way permanently. Our best thoughts come from others.”

“The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.”

“The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.”

“Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him.”

“I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life.”

“I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved.”

“Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.”

“Be the change you are trying to create.”

“If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.”

“Your own mental attitude is your real boss.”

“No one can keep you down but yourself”

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world!”

“No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful or greedy. Unless you let him.”

“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”

“If your environment is not to your liking, change it!”

“Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.”

“We must be the world we want to create.”

“We simply cannot delegate the exercise of mercy and generosity to others.”

“So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.”

“When someone gives you offense, it doesn't mean you have to take it.”

“My life is great because I made it that way. Anything other than happiness doesn't get a pass key.”

“When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.”

“Look at our society. Everyone wants to be thin, but nobody wants to diet. Everyone wants to live long, but few will exercise. Everybody wants money, yet seldom will anyone budget or control their spending.”

“I used to say, "I sure hope things will change." Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change”

“The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.”

“Tell everyone you know: “My happiness depends on me, so you're off the hook.”

“Being happy is a very personal thing-and it really has nothing to do with anyone else.”

“You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.”

“If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.”

“We're wanting you to come to the place where you're beginning to offer your thought deliberately. Where you are guiding your thoughts on purpose, where you are the creator of your own experience. Because you are the manager of your own thought”

“The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.”

“The world is in such a mess because of the continuous conflict that arises between human beings - not only between individuals but between tribes and nations and this group and that group and so on. But change can come in only when people start with themselves.”

“Someone else's action should not determine your response.”

“But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future.”

“First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others.”

“I can't do that to myself...”

“The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense.”

“If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.”