I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend. Votes: 6
Patriotism is idolatry of the self. Votes: 4
Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual. Votes: 4
The devil did not make me do it. I managed it all by myself. Votes: 4
If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself. Votes: 4
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Votes: 4
I was much happier when I had less responsibility... when my only responsibility was to my work and to myself. Votes: 4
Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself. Votes: 4
If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim. Votes: 4
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up. Votes: 4
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself. Votes: 4
Insecurity must follow the transfer of responsibility from self to others, particularly when transferred to arbitrary and capricious government. Genuine security is a matter of self-responsibility, based on the right to the fruits of one's own labor and freedom to trade. Votes: 4
If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility. Votes: 4
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship. Votes: 4
It should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it is difficult and sometimes impossible. Impossible because accepting the idea that you are in part creating your 'other' forces you to take on board a high degree of self responsibility. Few of us easily do that. p.234 Votes: 4
The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down. Votes: 4
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability. Votes: 4
China is completely lacking in self-awareness and as someone who has stepped outside that society, I have a responsibility to write about it as I see it. Votes: 3
Self-preservation is the first responsibility. Votes: 2
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. Votes: 2
I'm single, footloose and fancy free, I have no responsibilities, no anchors. Work, friendship and self-improvement, that's me. Votes: 2
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility. Votes: 2
Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish. Votes: 2
The historic nature of Israel's struggle for self-determination, freedom, and prosperity underscores the gravity of their circumstances and fortifies my commitment to America's responsibility as their ally. Votes: 2
The Chinese mom is not the helicopter mom. I would never do their homework for them. It's all about: Take responsibility, don't blame others. Be self-reliant. Never blame the teacher. Votes: 2
Everyone seems to be fleeing from the responsibilities that come from being who you are. I think that is why the blogosphere is thriving. It allows people to develop a fantasy self. Votes: 2
Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. Votes: 2
The American culture promotes personal responsibility, the dignity of work, the value of education, the merit of service, devotion to a purpose greater than self, and at the foundation, the pre-eminence of family. Votes: 2
The public needs art - and it is the responsibility of a 'self-proclaimed artist' to realize that the public needs art, and not to make bourgeois art for a few and ignore the masses. Votes: 2
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility. Votes: 2
As a father, my first priority is to help my sons set and attain personal goals so they will develop self-confidence and individual strength. Engaging in regular fitness activities with my children helps me fulfill those responsibilities. Votes: 2
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody. They don't want it thought of as accepting responsibility for one's life. Enterprise. Imagination. Independence. Entrepreneurism. Votes: 2
A timeline for bringing U.S. troops home that is negotiated with the Iraqi government would also boost the Iraqi government's legitimacy and claim to self-rule, and force the Iraqi government to take responsibility for itself and its citizens. Votes: 2
Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men. Votes: 2
Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country. Votes: 2
I think I have great responsibility, and when I do my music, when I try to relate to my audience, I just try to do it in an honest fashion, you know, just try to be as earnest as possible and sometime it may be self-effacing. Sometimes it may be finger-pointing. Sometimes it may be beautiful, and sometime it may be ugly. Votes: 2
Self expression is a function of responsibility. Votes: 0
Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty. Votes: 0
Follow the three R's: - Respect for self. - Respect for others. - Responsibility for all your actions. Votes: 0
Self-care means accepting some risk, and accepting much responsibility. It is not for all people or all cases. Votes: 0
Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them. Votes: 0
As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not. Votes: 0
here's a payoff for everyone. The reason we hang on to self-defeating behaviors is because it's easier not to take responsibility. Votes: 0
An essential aspect of maturing is developing the ability to take increasing responsibility for our own lives"to become increasingly self-directed Votes: 0
A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch. Votes: 0
The idols of today are unmistakable - self-esteem without achievement, sex without consequences, wealth without responsibility, pleasure without struggle and experience without commitment. Votes: 0
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. Votes: 0
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility; where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences. Votes: 0
Real success requires respect for and faithfulness to the highest human values-honesty, integrity, self-discipline, dignity, compassion, humility, courage, personal responsibility, courtesy, and human service. Votes: 0
A truly moral nation enacts policies that encourage personal responsibility and discourage self-destructive behavior by not subsidizing people who live irresponsibly and make poor choices. Votes: 0
For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect. Votes: 0
Liberty is no heirloom. It requires the daily bread of self-denial, the salt of law and, above all, the backbone of acknowledging responsibility for our deeds. Votes: 0
Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility. Votes: 0
Happiness is a function of accepting what is. Love is a function of communication. Health is a function of participation. Self expression is a function of responsibility. Votes: 0
The view that women are infantile and emotional creatures, and as such, incapable of responsibility and independence is the work of the masculine tendency to lower women's self-respect. Votes: 0
That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude, self-discipline, a sense of individual responsibility, and a capacity for relentless hard work. Votes: 0
Journalism is the closest thing I have to a religion, because I believe deeply in the role and responsibility the journalists have to the people of a self-governing community. Votes: 0
Responsibility is good for your soul Votes: 4 Judah Smith
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. Votes: 7 A. C. Benson