If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim.
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.
Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.
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.
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
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.
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.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
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.
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.
The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.
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.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.
Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself.
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.
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.
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.
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.
When we combine acceptance with self-responsibility we can then see that whenever we are in a painful or disturbing situation we have two choices: We can work compassionately to bring something positive to the situation or leave. However, the key is the mental stance that we make the choice from, and thus the first step is always accepting the moment without resistance.
It should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it is difficult and sometimes impossible. Impossible because accepting the idea that you are in part creating your 'other' forces you to take on board a high degree of self responsibility. Few of us easily do that. p.234
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.
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