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Get Inspired for Success Strategy 1: Accept Personal Responsibility

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.  

- R C Allen  

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen, how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have, life itself.  

- Walter Anderson  

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.  

- Maya Angelou  

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.  

- Francis Bacon  

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.  

- Henry Ward Beecher  

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  

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required.  

- Luke 12:48, Bible  

Bear one another's burdens.  

- Bible  

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.  

- Bertolt Brecht  

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.  

- Les Brown  

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.  

- Les Brown  

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

- Les Brown  

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.  

- Les Brown  

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do, by yourself, upon your own initiative.  

- Harry Browne  

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.  

- Jan Carlzon  

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.  

- William Ellery Channing  

Responsibility is the price of greatness.  

- Winston Churchill  

Nobody can do it for you.  

- Ralph Cordiner  

Accountability breeds response-ability.  

- Stephen R Covey  

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.  

- Frank Crane  

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.  

- Max Depree  

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

- Joan Didion  

Good men prefer to be accountable.  

- Michael Edwardes  

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it, those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.  

- Malcolm S Forbes  

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.  

- Henry Ford  

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.  

- Viktor E Frankl  

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.  

- Mahatma Gandhi  

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.  

- Nadine Gordimer  

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.  

- Arlo Guthrie  

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.  

- Louise L Hay  

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.  

- Napoleon Hill  

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.  

- Napoleon Hill  

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.  

- Josiah Gilbert Holland  

Each is responsible for his own actions.  

- H L Hunt  

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.  

- Roy L Hunt  

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

- Gerald W Johnson  

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.  

- Billie Jean King  

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.  

- Michael Korda  

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.  

- Rose Wilder Lane  

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

- Abraham Lincoln  

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.  

- Henry C Link  

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.  

- Connie Mack  

We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.  

- Bill Maher  

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.  

- Allan Massie  

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.  

- Thomas Merton  

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself, that my future lay in my own hands.  

- Darius Ogden Mills  

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.  

- Molière  

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.  

- Mildred Newman  

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.  

- George O'Neil  

Responsibility educates.  

- Wendell Phillips  

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.  

- Charles E Popplestone  

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

- John Enoch Powell  

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.  

- Proverb  

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.  

- Ronald Reagan  

Whatever happens, take responsibility.  

- Anthony Robbins  

I believe that every right implies a responsibility, every opportunity an obligation, every possession, a duty.  

- John D Rockefeller  

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  

One must care about a world one will not see.  

- Bertrand Russell  

Man is condemned to be free, because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.  

- Jean-Paul Sartre  

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will, his personal responsibility.  

- Albert Schweitzer  

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.  

- Don Shula  

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.  

- O J Simpson  

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing, they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.  

- Samuel Smiles  

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.  

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton  

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.  

- Ben Stein  

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.  

- Max Stirner  

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.  

- Tom Stoppard  

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.  

- Mikhail Strabo  

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.  

- Tecumseh  

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.  

- Arnold Toynbee  

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.  

- Brian Tracy  

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.  

- Ralph Waldo Trine  

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.  

- Source Unknown  

Freedom is a package deal, with it comes responsibilities and consequences.  

- Source Unknown  

Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.  

- Source Unknown  

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.  

- Source Unknown  

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.  

- Denis Waitley  

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.  

- Denis Waitley  

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.  

- Andy Warhol  

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.  

- Woodrow T Wilson  

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.  

- Henry Winkler  

In dreams begin responsibility.  

- William Butler Yeats  

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.  

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga  

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