162 Quotes About Personal-responsibility

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.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual you have an obligation to be one.

I was only following orders," the Mayor mocks. "The refuge of scoundrels since the dawn of time.

To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by “society”.

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

If a mistake is made the honorable thing to do is to own up to it.' Of course I was talking about Levi owning up to his mistakes. But as I finish this book, I realize it applies equally to myself, and to all of us as we try but fail to live up to the standards we know are right. Our inability and unwillingness to keep the standards don't make the standards any less valuable and good.

The real difference between people is between those who take responsibility for their situation in life and those who blame others.

Spiritually mature people accept personal responsibility for their daily reality experience.

Be careful not to focus on how cruel the world has been to you. Instead, tend to that of which you have some control: your family, your neighborhood, your self, your faith.