Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

I believe everybody is responsible for what they do themselves.

When one has genuinely chosen a course for oneself it cannot be possible to hold another responsible for it.

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

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.

External conditions can, to a certain extent, reduce, but never cancel individual repsonsibility.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

My dad has no control over who works with me. Me, me and me alone has to take responsibility for anything.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.

When people stop believing they are free agents, they stop seeing themselves as blameworthy for their actions.

My words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.'

I acted solely on my own responsibility.

I am responsible for my own actions and for nobody else's actions.

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

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

The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.

We demand entire freedom of action and then expect the government in some miraculous way to save us from the consequences of our own acts.... Self-government means self-reliance.

We make our own choices and we're each responsible for them. Blame and credit belong to the individual. You haven't the right to claim either from someone else.

Only by taking responsibility for oneself, to the greatest extent possible, can one ever be free, and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong, saving and spending, giving or taking.

You are the sum total of the choices you make every day.

We are ultimately alone in that we are ultimately responsible for ourselves.