Personal Responsibility Quotes
"You better check yourself before you wreck yourself"
"You are exactly where you deserve to be. Change who you are and you will change how you live."
"Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be"
"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone, but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."
"It is therefore senseless to think of complaining since nothing foreign has decided what we feel, what we live, or what we are."
"No one is going to come help you. No one's coming to save you."
"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts"
"I'm not an example for how people should live their lives "
"The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action"
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn"
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities"
"We should not ask what is wrong with the world, for that diagnosis has already been given. Rather we should ask, what has happened to the salt and light"
"I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."
"You can't change people, only they can change themselves"