Personal Responsibility Quotes

"What’s the world’s greatest lie?… It’s this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate." "When you repeat a mistake, it is not a mistake anymore: it is a decision." "YOU decide what your limits are, and YOU decide your level of success. You are responsible for the time that you spend on this planet." "You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them." "Happiness depends upon ourselves." "Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person." "It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly." "It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways." "It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." "Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else." "Nobody is going to care more about your goals than you. Nobody is going put more time in on them than you. You have to find your own source of hunger and motivation and let it drive you." "The fact is, discipline is only punishment when imposed on you by someone else. When you discipline yourself, it's not punishment but empowerment." "Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world." "The only thing I can control is how well I do my job" "Your own conscience is the only thing you've got to answer to" "As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe you don't move" "We are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and in acting to live" "A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself" "When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit that our lives are all that really belong to us. So it is how we use our lives that determines what kind of men we are" "Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her but once they are in hand he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game"