55 Personal Responsibility Quotes To Take The Helm

Our world today centered around social media has somewhat forgotten personal responsibility. Trouble is – you’re never going to find the success you’re owed if you don’t take responsibility for your own life.

It’s all on you, my friend. Whether you’re building your personal brand, a business or a legacy, those that excel are those who take charge and chart their own course. They don’t rely on others, the government or even hope, wish and pray for success. Instead – they take full responsibility for the good and the bad.

I hope these quotes can inspire you as much as they have me:

1. 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

2. I’m a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn’t always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no.

Steve Wilkos

3. This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don’t wait.

Natalie Goldberg

4. Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Colin Powell

5. There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.

J.K. Rowling

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

Les Brown

7. The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.

Steve Maraboli

8. 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

9. Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

Yehuda Berg

10. Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.

Henry Ward Beecher

11. Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Tony Robbins

12. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

George Bernard Shaw

13. You must be the change you want to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

14. 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

15. The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.

Hal Elrod

16. Accountability breeds responsibility.

Stephen R. Covey

17. 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.

Anne Frank

18. Within each of us lies the power of our consent to health and sickness, to riches and poverty, to freedom and to slavery. It is we who control these, and not another.

Richard Bach

19. Who we become is the result of our disciplined actions.

Brendon Burchard

20. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

Hubert Selby Jr.

21. The power behind taking responsibility for your actions lies in putting an end to negative thought patterns. You no longer dwell on what went wrong or focus on whom you are going to blame. You don’t waste time building roadblocks to your success. Instead, you are set free and can now focus on succeeding.

Lorii Myers

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

James Allen

23. A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

Alexander Graham Bell

24. A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.

William James

25. One day I realized that everything that I get out of life, is exclusively a result of my actions. That is the day I became a man.

Nav-Vii

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

Joan Didion

27. Personal responsibility is the willingness to completely accept choices that we have made throughout our life.

Asa Don Brown

28. It’s hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can and can’t do. It boils down to personal responsibility. People need to read labels, do their research and act accordingly.

Tom Douglas

29. Remember every one of us is responsible to make the world a joyful place.

Debasish Mridha

30. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Johann Von Goethe

31. 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.

32. Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.

Heather Schuck

33. No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Gerald W. Johnson

34. 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

35. Each of us should take personal responsibility for our diet, and our children’s diet, and the government’s role should be to make certain it provides the best information possible to help people stay healthy.

Jim Talent

36. No life lacks grandeur if you claim it as your own.

Marty Rubin

37. Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.

Ralph Marston

38. Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.

Buddha

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Sophocles

41. Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.

Wayne Dyer

42. Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and importance, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Margaret Thatcher

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

Dr. Denis Waitley

44. 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

45. The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.

Amy Leigh Mercree

46. I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Enoch Powell

47. When you think everything is someone else’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.

Dalai Lama

48. This is my future and I will take personal responsibility for making sure all competition requirements are met.

Kim Collins

49. Among the greatest tragedies is a person who believes that they aren’t meant to win, by winning I mean find their purpose, passion, and joy in life. They believe that other people have better DNA or happiness genes or something, but that they themselves are missing a critical chromosome. This is a lie and it is begging to be unbelieved. For the moment we know the truth about ourselves, we can take both responsibility for our own lives and inspired action to create exactly the life which is our birthright. In other words, you were meant to win.

Jacob Nordby

50. You can teach a person on how to do things right but they are not obliged to your advise; After all responsibility is a personal thing.

Unarine Ramaru

51. One of his greatest talents was empathy; no sadist can aspire to perfection without that diagnostic ability.

Vernor Vinge

52. Each player must accept the cards that life deals him or her. But once in hand one must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Voltaire

53. My life is immeasurably enriched by taking personal responsibility to do what I can, with what I have, where I am.

Rob Waldrop

54. If you own this story you get to write the ending.

Brene Brown

55. I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.

Anthony Fauci