Willie Nelson Quotes

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

Even with mental health as well as physical health, it's about taking responsibility and knowing that you're part of the solution always.

We cannot abdicate our conscience to an organization, nor to a government. 'Am I my brother's keeper?' Most certainly I am! I cannot escape my responsibility by saying the State will do all that is necessary. It is a tragedy that nowadays so many think and feel otherwise.

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.

Taking on responsibilities that properly belong to someone else means behaving irresponsibly toward yourself. You need to know where you end and someone else begins. You need to understand boundaries. You need to know what is and is not up to you, what is and is not in your control, what is and is not your responsibility.

It is every one's sacred duty to keep himself in a condition to do the biggest thing possible to him.

You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

I'm going to do all I can, control what I can control and I think one thing I can do beyond just playing the best I can is to start really coaching and leading other people so that I can never walk off the field saying, 'Hey, I did my part but so-and-so didn't,' that can't happen.

I've got to do what I've got to do, for me, my family and my kids.

Such is our need to shower blame on some distant entity when it is we who lack the courage to face up to what is there before us.

The world doesn’t need another opinion, they need another person taking action. So I take action because I see the call and respond.

Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one's going to take responsibility for you.

I just think racism is within each and every one of us. It's everyone's responsibility to figure out how they deal with this kind of obsolete instinct.

Long ago I added to the true old adage of "What is everybody's business is nobody's business," another clause which, I think, morethan any other principle has served to influence my actions in life. That is, What is nobody's business is my business.

I think it has as much to do with honoring my own voice as it does with feeling a responsibility to my readers or my daughters.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

What the majority of American children needs is to stop being pampered, stop being indulged, stop being chauffeured, stop being catered to. In the final analysis, it is not what you do for you children but what you have taught them to do for themselves that will make them successful human beings.

...its a rather pleasant change when all your life you've had people looking after you, to have someone to look after yourself. Only of course it has to be someone pretty hopeless to need looking after by me.

I am convinced that any attempt to restore harmony in the world can only rest on the renewal of personal responsibility.

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.

Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

Your happiness is your own responsibility.

I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.