Responsibility quotes

My thoughts

Take responsibility of your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.

Roy T. Bennett

I feel that this is something that we do too often. Whether it is our significant others, friends or family. It's really not their job. It's our job. They are not mind readers. They can't hear our inner voice or deep desires. It doesn't matter how much we say to them, we are the only ones that can truly understand our own mind and goals.

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.

Orrin Woodward

If you're not willing to do the work to become clear about what you want, you will be too easily swayed by the desires of others. If they know what they want they will be more forceful and passionate. You need to develop those attributes in yourself to truly have control of what you do.

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation.

Dan Millman

I hadn't really thought about responsibility as fun until I read this quote. But after thinking about it for a while, it is. It's fun to feel in control of your life and to figure out how to get around obstacles to achieve what you really want for your life.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Analysis paralysis. I've been there. When you're not crystal clear on what you want, every decision is wrong. Well, they might be wrong. You just don't know so you have no confidence in the direction that your actions are brining you. Without that confidence you can't work with passion and purpose.

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

Brené Brown

This is possibly the most succinct and important quote about personal responsibility. Of course there are unforseen circumstances and tragedies in life. But for most of us, if you do take responsbility and ownership of your own life, you can write the ending. And more importantly, the pages before that.

When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.

Kevin Ngo

I think this sums up what responsibility is really all about. Power. Personal power to do things differently. To be strategic in your actions, not just reactive to what happens. Drifting is easy. Sailing is not.

Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness

Sharon Salzberg

This is another nice way of thinking about responsibility, which I had not really considered. It is an active kindness for yourself but probably more for others. If you are consciously responsible for what you do, you'll treat the people around you better. Primarily because you don't have the sense that they are the cause of your current or future situation. Those things are your problem.

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

Denis Waitley

I would say that most people do neither. They battle the current circumstances without knowing what they really want to change about it. How can you know without being clear on what your goals are?

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

Hal Elrod

You certainly have the power at that point. But that is just the beginning. Taking personal responsibility is not an event. It's a journey. You need to accept that responsbility every day. In all circumstances. Without doing that you don't have the motivation to act.

If you want to change something about yourself, you need to be willing to take full responsibility for yourself. If you are going to hide behind stories and excuses, it won’t work!

Akiroq Brost

I am definitely guilty of hiding behind excuses and blaming others for my situation. And not just for short periods, for years. It wasn't malicious or overt. It was worse, it was subtle and I never even verbalized it or thought about it explicitly. It was only when I started travelling full-time that I really accepted my part and responsbility and started to take control of my life.

It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are.

Allanah Hunt

So true. You cannot fully accept the responsibility for the good things that happen in life. It's not just about responsibility for hardships.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Winston Churchill

Regardless of what your definition of greatness may be.