Responsibility For Your Life Quotes

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

James Allen

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

James Allen (2015). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.7, BookRix

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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Oprah Winfrey

Happiness, Moving On, Letting Go

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The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

Albert Ellis

Happiness, Responsibility, Destiny

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Les Brown

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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

Life, Motivational, Running

Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Sophocles

Life, Pain, Adversity

David Grene, Sophocles (1959). “Sophocles”, [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press

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

Theodore Roosevelt

Inspirational, Funny, Life

Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.4, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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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

Inspirational, Spiritual, Growing Up

John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.103, Harper Collins

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Joan Didion

Life, Respect, Self Esteem

FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Sep 15, 2011

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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

Oprah Winfrey

Inspirational, Positive, Happiness

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.

Ken Keyes Jr.

Responsibility, Childhood, Fixing

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You must not ever stop being whimsical.

Mary Oliver

Healing, Whimsy, Whimsical

Mary Oliver (2016). “Upstream: Selected Essays”, p.16, Penguin

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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Letters and Papers from Prison".

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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Les Brown

Music, Dream, Teacher

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Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Motivational, Strength, Being Yourself

"You Learn by Living".

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

Albert Schweitzer

Learning, Responsibility, Exercise

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If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Inspirational, Motivational, Family

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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.

Albert Ellis

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Erica Jong

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 18, 2014

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Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Life, Freedom, Responsibility

Martin Heidegger, Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre (2016). “The Philosophical Library Existentialism Collection: Essays in Metaphysics, The Ethics of Ambiguity, and The Philosophy of Existentialism”, p.167, Open Road Media

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw

Inspirational, Freedom, Fear

Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Liberty and Equality"

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The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

J. K. Rowling

Lying, Responsibility, Wheels

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