Personal Responsibility Quotes

• We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

  Ronald Reagan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  Ronald Reagan's Speech at the Republican National Convention, Platform Committee Meeting, Miami, Florida, July 31, 1968.

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• 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.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 22, 2015

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• Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  4th Of July, Responsibility, Past

  John F. Kennedy's Speech at Loyola College Alumni Banquet, Baltimore, Maryland, www.jfklibrary.org. February 18, 1958.

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• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

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• A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

  Kemmons Wilson

  Motivational, Success, Basketball

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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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• As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

  Rick Perry

  Hard Work, Responsibility, Men

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• Blessed is the person who sees the need, recognizes the responsibility, and actively becomes the answer.

  William Arthur Ward

  Blessed, Responsibility, Blessing

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Basketball, Peace

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• Did you know that every human being is created with a purpose and that they have a responsibility to not only discover their purpose but also to fulfill it?

  Zig Ziglar

  Responsibility, Purpose, Humans

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Feb 13, 2013

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• Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Growing Up, Freedom, 4th Of July

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.152, Westminster John Knox Press

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• If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life -- that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success.

  Jack Canfield

  Inspirational, Life, Success

  FaceBook post by Jack Canfield from Dec 20, 2012

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• We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Responsibility

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• American naturalist John Burroughs put it, “A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

  Jeff Olson

  Running, Failure, Responsibility

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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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• Until a person takes responsibility for where he is, there is no basis for moving on. The bad news is that the past was in your hands, but the good news is that the future, my friend, is also in your hands.

  Andy Andrews

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Future

  Andy Andrews (2005). “The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success”, p.28, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The person best suited to look out for your interests is you. The more you depend on yourself, the more positive control you have over every aspect of your life.
  Take personal responsibility for who you are, what you do, and how you live. You are the only person who knows what is best for you. And you are the one who is most able to achieve it!! You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Responsibility, Greatness, Looks

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• The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?

  Nelson Mandela

  Dream, Country, Helping

  Twitter post from Feb 20, 2016

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• Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Full Text of Governor Ikpeazu’s Inaugural Speech". dailypost.ng. May 30, 2015.

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• The lessons we have begun to learn make me hopeful, that human beings will become friendlier, more harmonious, less harmful. Compassion and the seeds of peace will be able to flourish. At the same time, every individual is responsible to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes alone are not enough; we have to take responsibility. Large human movements spring from individual human initiatives

  Dalai Lama

  Spring, Responsibility, Compassion

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Character

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.

  T. Harv Eker

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Mar 26, 2013

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• Surprisingly, it's forgiveness, not guilt, that increases accountability. Researchers have found that taking a self-compassionate point of view on a personal failure makes people more likely to take personal responsibility for the failure than when they take a self-critical point of view. They also are more willing to receive feedback and advice from others, and more likely to learn from the experience.

  David D. Burns

  Responsibility, Self, Views

  Source: time.com

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• We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

  Oscar Wilde

  Evil, World, Criminal Mind

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

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• We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

  Mitt Romney

  Believe, Responsibility, Successful

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