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Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility. -- Barry Eisler
Happiness is your own responsibility -- Jennifer Garner
Every man's happiness is his own responsibility. -- Abraham Lincoln
What my daughter does is my own responsibility, the way she represents herself. -- Mark Oliver
Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak. -- Mark Twain
Do not wait for someone else to validate your existence; it is your own responsibility. -- Jasz Gill
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews. -- Anne Frank
Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions. -- Stanley Schmidt
We have a chance in the future only if we take our own responsibility. Not anyone else come to give us good. -- King Michael of Romania
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility. -- Meg Cabot
As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility. -- Sophia Loren
If the U.N. secretary-general withdraws the inspectors from Baghdad ... this means that the secretary-general has abandoned its own responsibility in maintaining peace and security in the world. -- Naji Sabri
The only rule is, do what you really, impulsively, wish to do. But always act on your own responsibility, sincerely. And have the courage of your own strong emotion. -- D. H. Lawrence
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
I am unapologetic about asking people to connect up their own responsibility for their total environmental footprint and how they decide to procreate and how many children they think are appropriate. -- Jonathon Porritt
The world you live in is 100 percent your own responsibility. If you don't like your world, it doesn't work to say, "Well, it's my mother's fault. She taught me how to think." -- Byron Katie
To fight evil one must also recognize one's own responsibility. The values for which we stand must be expressed in the way we think of, and how we deal with, our fellow humans. -- Beatrix of the Netherlands
To shape a dream well, understand that it is going to happen through processes in which your hands must get on board. It takes your own responsibility to get the best dream shape -- Israelmore Ayivor
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. -- John F. Kennedy
Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself. -- Anne Holm
We cannot avoid our lives. We have to face our lives, young or old, rich or poor. Whatever happens, we cannot save ourselves from our lives at all... the more you understand, the more you will realize your own responsibility. -- Chogyam Trungpa
It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
My mom is a hard worker. She puts her head down and she gets it done. And she finds a way to have fun. She always says, 'Happiness is your own responsibility.' That's probably what I quote from her and live by the most. -- Jennifer Garner
Whenever we think of ourselves as doing something for someone else, we are in some way denying our own responsibility. Whatever we do is done because we choose to do it, and we make that choice because it is the one that satisfies us the most. -- M. Scott Peck
Taking a man's money without his consent, is also as much robbery, when it is done by millions of men, acting in concert, and calling themselves a government, as when it is done by a single individual, acting on his own responsibility, and calling himself a highwayman. -- Lysander Spooner
So my father [Erwin Rommel] decided during the battle in Normandy, he knew really soon that it wasn't possible to win this battle. But my father decided pretty soon to, if necessary, to surrender on his own responsibility when the British or Americans penetrate the German positions. -- Manfred Rommel
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Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you enjoy or suffer - it is your own responsibility. Be regular in your meditation and do not postpone for a later date your striving for God consciousness. -- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions. -- Marilyn Manson
You have to remind people of their own struggles. It's a responsibility. -- Elia Kazan
Iraq assumes responsibility for its own future... They have got to step up. -- Jeff Sessions
Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others. -- Joel Edgerton
After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future. -- Barack Obama
A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine. -- Rachel Roy
We don't manage money for anyone else. We bear responsibility only for our own risks. -- Suleyman Kerimov
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. -- Joan Didion
Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children. -- Leon Kass
Latinos don't go out and support their own films, but at the same time, it's not their responsibility. -- Gina Rodriguez
I felt weary of the responsibility of owning houses and was glad enough to pass mine on to others. -- Lillie Langtry
Children who plan their own schedules and evaluate their own work build up their brains and learn to take more responsibility. -- Bruce Feiler
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own. -- Charles de Gaulle
Are Iraqis ready to carry the responsibility for their country? Is Iraq ready to be its own master? We want to be the masters of ourselves and to carry our responsibilities in this region. -- Ahmed Chalabi
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert. -- Robert Fripp
It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility. -- David Gower
I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job. -- Elena Kagan
Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity. -- M. Scott Peck
In becoming a citizen, one undertakes certain duties and responsibilities. One of the more intangible of those duties and responsibilities is no matter what one's birth and background, to accept the historical past of the new country as one's own. -- J. M. Coetzee
Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful. -- Timothy Leary
Assume responsibility for the quality of your own life -- Norman Cousins
Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being -- Linda S. Reeves
You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life. -- Chogyam Trungpa
I make all my own decisions and I take full responsibility. -- Kanye West
Be the holder of your own Nature. It is a joyful responsibility. -- Eric Fischl
Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions. -- Richard L. Evans
Accepting responsibility for the actions of others contributes to your own greatness. -- Edwin Louis Cole
Conscious evolution begins as we take responsibility for clearing our own obstructions. -- Dan Millman
Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea -- Dennis Prager
I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion. -- J. K. Rowling
To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else. -- Bruce Lee
When you forgive somebody else you accept the responsibility for your own future. -- Zig Ziglar
Moral courage further demands that you assume the responsibility for your own acts. -- Napoleon Hill
A persons life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine. -- Rachel Roy
All hate is the result of people refusing to take responsibility for their own lives. -- Marty Rubin
The immature person makes excuses to avoid the responsibility of his own potential. -Wade D. Sadlier -- Wade D. Sadlier
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions. -- Eric Thomas
There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives. -- James Bovard
It is imperative to base your life on yourself, to take responsibility for your own happiness. -- Josei Toda
If you can't take responsibility for your own well-being, you will never take control over it. -- Jennifer Hudson
Your responsibility as an adult is accept your childhood and make your own choice of life. -- Kathy Mckeon
The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility. -- Rudy Giuliani
The only ethical decision is to take responsibility for our own existence and that of our children. -- Bill Mollison
People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God. -- Echo Bodine
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life. -- Leo Buscaglia
A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. -- Bruce Lee
The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior. -- Thomas Sowell
The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal. -- Minor White
If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense. -- Holly Lisle
the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children. -- Margaret Mead
A leader's responsibility to his team is paramount. It overshadows even his own personal feelings at any given time. -- Mike Krzyzewski
I know that I cannot take responsibility for other people. We are all under the law of our own consciousness. -- Louise Hay
Each man of us is living his own personal work of art, and cannot evade artistic responsibility for his product. -- Richard McKenna
Our brain is continuously being shaped - we can take more responsibility for our own brain by cultivating positive influences. -- Richard Davidson
Forming characters! Whose? Our own or others? Both. And in that momentous fact lies the peril and Responsibility of our existence. -- Elihu Burritt
In a dynamic, decentralized system of individual choice and responsibility, people do not have to trust any authority but their own. -- Virginia Postrel
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. -- Pamela A. Matson
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Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity. -- Marie Curie
Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed. -- Rodolfo Costa
A trustee has a responsibility to guard the assets of others with a higher degree of care than he does his own. -- John Ashcroft
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. -- Loretta Lynch
The task of resisting our own oppression does not relieve us of the responsibility of acknowledging our complicity in the oppression of others. -- Beverly Daniel Tatum
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
I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts. -- Maya Angelou
I have a very strong opinions about health and our responsibility to our own health, and I will always say what I feel. -- Melissa Etheridge
As actors, it is our responsibility to read the newspapers, and then say what we read on television like it's our own opinion. -- Janeane Garofalo
Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life. -- Ayn Rand
Though Congress continues to explore possible solutions to ensure social security solvency, everyone must take personal responsibility to prepare their own retirement savings accordingly. -- Ron Lewis
Whatever they may say, your story is truly your own. You have a responsibility to it, the way a father has to a child -- Miguel Syjuco
Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibility for the consequences of neglecting my own health. -- Stephen Furst
You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done. -- Adam Goucher
Churches are healthier and stronger if they assume responsibility both for financing their own programs and for stimulating their members to accept that responsibility. -- John M Swomley
Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life. -- Jon Katz
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. -- Swami Vivekananda
Leadership responsibility: If you own a biz, you're the head of the org. Good or bad, your company will LOOK and ACT like you do. -- Dave Ramsey
The only authentic responsibility is towards your own potential. Values have not to be imposed on you. They should grow with your awareness, in you. -- Rajneesh
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There's something magical about putting yourself into life. You've got to stand up and take responsibility for your own life and you cannot abandon that. -- Bill Kurtis
A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being. -- Duop Chak Wuol
The strength of collective decision making and political responsibility is not only a question of recognizing other people's ability. It is also recognizing one's own limitations. -- Aruna Roy
All great leaders have understood that their number one responsibility is cultivating their own discipline and personal growth. Those who cannot lead themselves cannot lead others. -- John C. Maxwell
We are responsible for our own relationships, their successes, their failures, the good times, the bad times. Take responsibility for creating the relationships that you desire. -- Sam Owen
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. -- Fred Woodworth
One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection. -- Iyanla Vanzant
Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need. -- Dalai Lama
You don't have to be 'adults'... but be someone who can take responsibility for their own words and actions. Believe it or not, that's actually harder. -- Natsuki Takaya
I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters. -- Jennifer Weiner
People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics. -- James Frey
If we estimate people's responsibility according to the time when they were left exceptionally on their own, then today's generation is a stubborn crowd of hopeless peers. -- Alexander Zalan
I think that the whole thing, the crux of the whole psychedelic issue, is that it accentuates personal responsibility by making people take their own experiences seriously. -- Terence McKenna

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