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  • It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

  • The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

  • Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility in the final analysis. The one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

    "Success!". Book by Michael Korda, 1977.
  • If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

    Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.164, Simon and Schuster
  • The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

    "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.
  • The right way is the greatest gratifier of human wishes ever come upon - when allowed to operate. It is as morally sound as the Golden Rule. It is the way of willing exchange, of common consent, of self-responsibility, of open opportunity. It respects the right of each to the product of his labor. It limits the police force to keeping the peace. It is the way of the free market, private property, limited government. On its banner is emblazoned Individual Liberty.

  • Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

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

    "Words With Wayne Dyer". Interview with Karl Saliter, www.elephantjournal.com. May 4, 2014.
  • The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

  • The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

    John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.103, Harper Collins
  • In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.

  • 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.

    FaceBook post by Anne Frank from Nov 29, 2014
  • Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

    FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Jan 07, 2013
  • The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

    FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011
  • Patriotism is idolatry of the self.

  • Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.

  • The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself.

  • Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.

  • In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
  • It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

  • Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.

  • You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

    FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015
  • If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

    Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
  • The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

    Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press
  • Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

    FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014
  • Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

  • I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.

  • If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

    Franz Kafka (1991). “The Blue Octavo Notebooks”
  • If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.

  • Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade.

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