Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

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

One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

People like to blame others. I think a person should just look at their own situation, look around them, find out what they wish to do, and seek and go and do that. And that's it.

The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.

You are fully responsible for everything you are, everything you have and everything you become.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

I just have to be myself. I'm not perfect, and I'm going to make mistakes; I might say the wrong thing. I have to be responsible to my community, and I feel like I am, but then I have to not be so hard on myself.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

The knowledge that we are responsible for living the life we have is our most powerful tool.

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.

I used to blame my problems on other people. But my moment of clarity, if you want to call it that, came when I was looking in the mirror one day and just burst into tears. It wasn't just that I looked bad, it was that I knew my problem was me.

I am the result of the good choices I've made and the bad choices.

We're going to be human, and we are going to make mistakes, but you really should understand the power that you have and embrace it in a positive way.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.