Hubert Selby Jr. Quotes

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

As a person, I think you should assume the responsibilities of your actions.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

If you’re not accountable in life that means ultimately that your life doesn’t count.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

I've no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions.

I take complete and sole responsibility for my present situation.

If the history of the Day of Atonement has anything to say to us now it is: never relieve individuals of moral responsibility. The more we have, the more we grow.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Personal responsibility matters.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility with regard to everything that has life.

Even if it's not your fault, it's your responsibility.

With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself.