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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, said William Shakespeare through his Julius Caesar’s character. Nevertheless, even though astrology teaching was abolished from Paris university in the 17th century, nowadays there are still a lot of words spent on this useless branch of ignorance.
Carl William Brown

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anne Frank

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Sir Josiah Stamp

Being responsible is an enormous privilege…. It’s what marks anyone a fully grown human.
Barack Obama

No-one will come in to rescue you. You just have to step out somehow, and make your dreams come true.
Moffat Machingura

Stand in your own two shoes.
T. Scott McLeod

Life is a balancing act. While we have all the rights to be in freedom, peace, harmony and bliss; we do have a responsibility to ensure that others too enjoy their own freedom, peace, harmony and bliss.
Vishwas Chavan

We are responsible for our own moral being. Shame and guilt spring from discontent with our morality and leading a wasteful life. A person whom rejects societal notions of success, does not believe in a merciful god, and is shunned by the same people whom he studiously avoids, is left with very little to steady their life except for moments of solitude to contemplate the aesthetic purpose of their being. We reaffirm the value of personal existence by working on self-improvement and dedicating our life to achieving purposeful goals.
Kilroy J. Oldster

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world… in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Every kind of responsability should be a form of self-responsability.
Carl William Brown

What is responsibility? We have a few different ways that we talk about responsibility. There’s being responsible, taking responsibility, acting responsibly, and having responsibilities. In simple words, responsibility is about doing the things we are supposed to do, and accepting the positive or negative outcomes of our actions.

Responsibility is an important step to be aware of your own life. Today, we hear a lot about the need to take responsibility for our actions. However, only few can explain the meaning of “self-responsibility.” So, what does it mean, to be responsible?

Taking responsibility doesn’t mean doing way more work than you need to. It’s about accepting that you are the only one who can change your life for the better.

Self-responsibility is the belief that all the things which happen to our life are entirely the result of our own actions. We choose to take ownership of different situations instead of blaming outside forces like luck, coincidence, other people or groups, and so on.

Self-responsibility is the key to personal freedom. Quite simply, self-responsibility means taking responsibility for aspects of your life that are within your control. You are responsible for the choices in your life, the direction you choose to travel and the way you think and feel.

Being able to own your own emotional conflicts without blame or projection upon another person by making it their fault. Do not assume that you know anything about that person that can be judged for what you cannot see or really know about them, as you have not walked in their shoes. By going deeper and reflecting on forgiveness of ourselves and forgiveness of others, while allowing the time and space needed to heal, helps to neutralize the conflict in most cases.Learning how to become responsible and accepting Self-Responsibility is a major step of productive Negative Ego clearing.

About self-responsability it is clear that a teacher can only teach it is up to you to learn what the teacher is teaching. They relate to you the information they have on a certain subject, it up to you to comprehend the information for use. By not taking responsibility you see yourself as a victim, believing things around you have more power than the things in you. Therefore what you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you.

If you don’t like something about how you are living, it’s about taking the time to change it. No one can do that for you. Not your mom, your dad, your rich uncle, Frank: no one can change what isn’t working in your life, except you.

So now you have to ask yourself this question: are you ready to take responsibility for your life? Amazing things can happen if you do.

Create an internal “cutoff point”. Responsibility is associated with a feel of control over our own lives. The locus of this control can be inside a person (when he is sure that he is responsible for his own feelings, thoughts and actions). Or, it can be associated with an external environment. This happens when self-responsibility is unbearable for some reason. For example, such person will say something like, “I have a bad daughter” rather than “I am not really a good father.”

Care about yourself. This includes taking care of your own body and feelings. Well-balanced nutrition, good sleep, well-organized physical activity and consistent health monitoring will help you to stay in a better contact with yourself and your body.

Don’t forget about self-support. Make sure you allocate enough time for hobbies and creative activities that bring joy. It’s a good way to recover and balance your emotional condition. Attend concerts and exhibitions, meditate, or watch movies to enhance your personal growth. Create and maintain relationships that “nourish” you. This is a resource that will protect you from emotional exhaustion.

Be honest with yourself. In other words, try to realize what you really feel. Especially, when you experience negative feelings, such as guilt, shame, anger, etc. If you do not realize the root of these feelings or beliefs, you will react in “an autopilot mode.” Unfortunately, such reaction does not cultivate responsibility.

Give yourself an opportunity to be “imperfect”. Often we are very strict towards ourselves. We take any mistake as a personal failure. The fear of social disapproval drives us into a trap: we either harass ourselves to be the best in everything, or give up. Sometimes we even discard responsibility for the results of our actions. It is important to learn to separate the result results from ourselves. “Yes, the results aren’t the best. However, it does not mean that I am bad.”

Accept constraints and turn them into steps of development. In life, we consistently face various complex situations and crises. However, only when we realize that we can’t change the situation, we begin to explore new opportunities and prospects for development.

Self responsibility is a commitment to one’s self as well as those around you. You choose to keep cultivating you for the very best you. That’s why you should try to do whatever you have to do in the best possible way.

Form a habit. If you didn’t develop self-responsibility when you were a kid, this skill will not appear on its own. You have to train this “muscle.” It is important to be attentive to yourself, to notice when the usual mechanisms shoot ahead, and take a lead of your life.

Don’t try to be happy, just be happy. Because your happiness does not depend on others. Be the reason for your own happiness.
Vishwas Chavan

Learn to love your self from the inside and you would not need others to love you from the outside.
Efrat Cybulkiewicz

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our attitudes.
Charles R. Swindoll

Accepting responsibility should be your default response to everything.
Pia Silva

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
Patrick Ness

Do not give your attention to what others do or fail to do; give it to what you do or fail to do.
Buddha

Accountability and self-responsibility are critical to our success in personal, professional and public life. However, we often look for those character traits in others, rather than inculcating them in ourselves.
Vishwas Chavan

Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
Steve Maraboli

As far as opioid litigation is concerned we should not forget what is Personal responsibility or Individual Responsibility, that is the idea that human beings choose, instigate, or otherwise cause their own actions. A corollary idea is that because we cause our actions, we can be held morally accountable or legally liable.
Carl William Brown

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there – good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn’t have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory… Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea – God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Elizabeth Warren

Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
Tom Robbins

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.
John Stuart Mill

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.
Eleanor Roosevelt

With great power there must also come … great responsibility!
Stan Lee

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.
Jean-Paul Sartre

Accepting responsibility should be your default response to everything.
Pia Silva

There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power – God, history, fate, nation, or humanity.
Bruce Lee

Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
Steve Maraboli

Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
Adrienne Rich

What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny. One is not in bondage to the past, which has shaped our feelings, to race, inheritance, background. All this can be altered if we have the courage to examine how it formed us. We can alter the chemistry provided we have the courage to dissect the elements.
Anaïs Nin

In the moral and social duties of life there are responsibilities resting upon us which, if neglected, become so great a burden that we fall under their oppressiveness.
Annie E. Lancaster

You become responsible forever for what you’ve tamed.
Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Every man and woman ought to feel their own individual responsibilities.
T. Guthrie

The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.
Steve Maraboli

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
Stanley Milgram

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud

One of the older misunderstandings about responsibility is the idea that responsibility is a burden and that responsibility in business is largely a matter of liability for punishment. But responsibility is also a matter of pride and praise for a job well done. Responsibility is having a place in an organization and in a community as a full-fledged participant, and it is our responsibilities that also determine the perks and privileges of a position. There is nothing negative about responsibility–except when it is a responsibility unfulfilled or neglected.
Robert C. Solomon

At the end of the day, taking responsibility is a huge premium price creator. As a client, the more I pay, the more I expect to be taken care of.
Pia Silva

“Responsibility” is a fundamental legal concept, a basic building block of legal thought and reasoning.
Peter Cane

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver’s license.
P. J. O’rourke

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O’rourke

Let us not shrink from the responsibility which comes down upon the age in which we live. The great and mighty problem of the universe has been given to the whole human family for its solution.
O. M. Mitchell

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky

Responsibility I believe accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore we have a huge amount of responsibility. We live in free societies where we are not afraid of the police; we have extraordinary wealth available to us by global standards. If you have those things, then you have the kind of responsibility that a person does not have if he or she is slaving seventy hours a week to put food on the table; a responsibility at the very least to inform yourself about power.
Noam Chomsky

The fact that responsibility is a threshold concept in no way undermines my claim that responsibility tracks hypercapacity, but rather it yet again helps to underscore and to emphasize it.
Nicole A. Vincent

If an assumption of responsibility is made in ethics, it is assumed as a metaphysical theory and is thus open to the objections that can be made to any metaphysical statement.
Moira Roberts

You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.
Marianne Williamson

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.
Mahatma Gandhi

A lot of responsibility is learned over time and comes with experience. The best we can do is try our hardest and be self-aware.
Macy How

Not responding is a response-we are equally responsible for what we don’t do.
Jonathan Safran Foer

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John Lennon

Character – the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life – is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.
Hubert Selby Jr.

Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.
Grigoris Deoudis

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Exercising responsibility is a matter of constant interpretation, individual discretion and judgement. In other words, responsibility is not a finalised notion but rather an open one, subject to additions and alterations that change with time and place. One may encounter as many views on responsibility as there are periods of history, contexts, conventions, religions, laws, interpretations, not to speak of a variety of interests and objectives.
Edith Sizoo

Distributing responsibility is an effective way to build proficiencies, increase personal accountability, and test how people handle their newfound freedom.
David Kahn

Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each one of us individually.
Dalai Lama

Note that political responsibility is wholly vicarious and inescapable. Although one may not have participated in harm-doing, one still shares responsibility.
Cassie Striblen

What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
Ursula K. Le Guin

It is no use blaming the men – we made them what they are – and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves – the makers of men – a little more responsible.
Lady Nancy Astor

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

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
Joy Baluch

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.
Bernard M. Baruch

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

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

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.
Stuart Briscoe

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

We each build our own future. We are the architects of our own fortune.
Appius Claudius Caecus

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

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

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

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins

In dreams begin responsibility.
William Butler Yeats