Phyllis Bottome Quotes

I am only one. But I am one. I cannot do everything. But I can do something. What I can do I ought to do. What I ought to do I will do

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

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

I look at modern life and I see people not taking responsibility for their lives. The temptation to blame, to find external causes to one's own issues is something that is particularly modern. I know that personally I find that sense of responsibility interesting.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

You have to take responsibility for how you act. You can't fix everyone.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

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

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

I am responsible for no one but myself.

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

That person has to be accountable for himself. I think that's what we have to do in society today is to be accountable for yourself. I think we have the tendency to always want to live someone else's life.

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

The only person who takes the full responsibility why I leave Man United is myself. I am the one to make the choice.

No one can listen to your body for you... To grow and heal, you have to take responsibility for listening to it yourself.

While I fully recognize I had made a mistake in the whole relationship, and I'll call it a human error, I hesitate to call myself a victim because I strongly believe one should take responsibility for their actions.

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

Usually, making excuses is just something we can get away with, rather than challenging or changing ourselves. If you want to change and you want your life to work at a level you've never had before, then take responsibility for it.

Accuse not nature: she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

A secure individual...knows that the responsibility for anything concerning his life remains with himself-and he accepts that responsibility.

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

If you recognize that all of your inner hurts are caused by your own wrong actions or your own wrong reactions or your own wrong inaction, then you will stop hurting yourself.

Whenever you think something or some person is ruining your life, it's you. A victimization mentality is so debilitating.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.