Here is a collection of responsibility quotes to inspire taking personal responsibility over our lives.
We are responsible for where we are in life at this moment - how we feel, our characters, whom we choose to share our life with etc.
If we are unsatisfied with the way things are now, we can choose to take personal responsibility to change them. In doing so, we can exert greater control over things that are happening to us.
There is a limit to how much others can help us. Ultimately, we are responsible for the success in our life.
"We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be."
- Oprah Winfrey
"You can delegate authority, but not responsibility."
- Stephen W. Comiskey
"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
"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."
- Les Brown
"Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust."
- James Cash Penney
"Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them."
- Tom Stoppard
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
- Winston Churchill
"Accountability breeds response-ability."
- Stephen R. Covey
"Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences."
-
Anonymous
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."
- Martin Luther
"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."
- Michael Korda
"I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."
- Oprah Winfrey
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