Self-Responsibility: The Price of Greatness

 

 

“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”­_George Bernard Shaw

 

 

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

Denis Waitley

 

Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.

Robert Ringer

 

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

Abraham Lincoln

 

“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

 

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

 

The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Eleanor Roosevelt

 

“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

 

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

Joan Didion

 

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Sigmund Freud

 

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.

Tony Robbins

 

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller

 

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

Erica Jong

 

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

James Allen

 

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.

 

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

Brian Tracy

 

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.

Albert Ellis