Herbert Beerbohm Tree Quotes

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success - or failure.

Man must assume responsibility for the direction of his life and destiny.

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

There is nothing wrong with underlining personal agency, but there is something unfair about using personal responsibility as a basis for assigning blame while simultaneously denying those who are being blamed the opportunity to exert agency in their lives

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.

Taking responsibility for your own life is not a Left wing idea

Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.

I believe in me, in my view of the world. I believe in my responsibility for my own destiny, guilt for my own sins, merit for my own good deeds, determination of my own life. I don't believe in miracles, I believe in hard work.

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgement and nothing can help you escape it - that no substitute can do your thinking, as no pinch-hitter can live your life.

In a free society, government has the responsibility of protecting us from others, but not from ourselves.

The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.

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

If you let other people do it for you, they will do it to you.

I think there are huge lessons there, for young people who are getting started in life, as well as other people. And that is, to take responsibility for your own life. Only you are responsible for the course you take from there.

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 started reading about people of great accomplishment... and it dawned on me suddenly that the person who has the most to do with what happens in your life is you.

It was a question of helping a man prepare in the way that suits him best. The theory is if you give a man responsibility for his own actions, then it is up to him to accept that responsibility.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.

It is time to break the bad habit of expecting something for nothing from our Government or from each other. Let us all take more responsibility not only for ourselves and our families but our communities and our country.

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

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