Self-Accountability Quotes

Avoid doing what you would blame others for doing.

Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.

Being proactive is more than taking initiative. It is recognizing that we are responsible for our own choices and have the freedom to choose based on principles and values rather than on moods or condition. Proactive people are agents of change and choose not to be victims, to be reactive, or to blame others.

What is a fear of living? It's being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself - for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don't know what you're here to do, then just do some good.

If you don't go through life making excuses, you save yourself, your friends, and parents a lot of trouble.

Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.

It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.

Most people use two totally different sets of criteria for judging themselves versus others. We tend to judge others according to their actions. It's very cut-and-dried. However, we judge ourselves by our intentions. Even if we do the wrong thing, if we believe our motives were good, we let ourselves off the hook. And we are often willing to do that over and over before requiring ourselves to change.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes

When you are offended at anyone's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. By attending to them, you will forget your anger and learn to live wisely.

You must personally accept the responsibility of improving your own life.

No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

What can you ever really know of other people's souls — of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

we're responsible for our own lives.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

I am harder on myself than anyone else could be.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.