20 Quotes to Inspire Responsibility

What comes to mind when you think of responsibility? One thing I have realized more and more over the years is in order for the world to change we have to change and this means taking responsibility and being accountable to ourselves.

Yes, responsibility for everything in our lives – thoughts, feelings and behaviours. I know this is not easy sometimes, however I have found we have to go within and find the places that are stuck to release them and then we have the choice of how we respond, just like Victor Frankl indicated, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom”.

I hope the following quotes inspire you to take responsibility for your life and well-being.

  1. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill
  2. “You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.” ~ Marianne Williamson
  3. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” ~ Jim Rohn
  4. “The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” ~ Doug Larson
  5. “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” ~ Lou Holtz
  6. “We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” ~ Carlos Costeneda
  7. “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
  8. “Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” ~ George Washington Carver
  9. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.” ~ Wayne Dyer
  10. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ~ Sigmund Freud
  11. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
  12. “In dreams begin responsibilities.” ~ W.B. Yeats
  13. “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.” ~ Hubert Selby Jr.
  14. “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
  15. “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
  16. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” ~ Viktor Frankl
  17. “Look at the word responsibility – “response-ability” – the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.” ~ Stephen Covey
  18. “The time is always right to do what is right” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
  19. “When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” ~ Louis Nizer
  20. “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” ~ Bob Dylan

 

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