Top 200 Personal Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Positive Quotes, Success Quotes, Business Quotes

2. “I have nothing in common with lazy people who blame others for their lack of success. Great things come from hard work and perseverance. No excuses.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Startup Quotes, Focus Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Hard Work Quotes

3. “If you’re not where you are. If you’re not where you want to be. If you don’t have what you want, want to have. If you’re not where you think you should be at this particular place. It has nothing to do with the system, but it has everything to do with the fact that you’re not making the sacrifice.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Dedication Quotes

4. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Empowering Quotes, Mindset Quotes

5. “Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Military Quotes

6. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Accountability Quotes

7. “The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Action Quotes, Interesting Quotes

8. “Dreams don’t work unless you do.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Coaching Quotes

9. “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

10. “For things to change, you have to change.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes

11. “Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Interesting Quotes

12. “Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Quotes About Strength, Attitude Quotes, Interesting Quotes

13. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

14. “Lost time is never found again.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

15. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Startup Quotes, Success Quotes, Action Quotes

16. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Quotes About Money, Wise Quotes, Inspiring Quotes

17. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”

— C.G. Jung

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

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

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

19. “If it is to be, it is up to me.”

— William H. Johnsen

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Confidence Quotes, Action Quotes

20. “You are free to choose, but the choices you make today will determine what you have, be, and do in the tomorrow of your life.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Success Quotes, Life Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes

21. “Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.”

— Bob Marley

Also featured in: Empowerment Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes, Mind Quotes

22. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Important Quotes

23. “Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure. ”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Failure Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Accountability Quotes

24. “If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

25. “Start going the extra mile and opportunity will follow you.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Opportunity Quotes

26. “Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Growth Mindset Quotes

27. “A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Wisdom Quotes

28. “There is no magic to achievement. It’s really about hard work, choices, and persistence.”

— Michelle Obama

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Women

29. “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Responsibility Quotes, Quotes About Reality

30. “Unless you change how you are, you will always have what you've got.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

31. “Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Change Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Transformation Quotes

32. “One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

33. “Do the right thing because it is right.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Character Quotes

34. “No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Friday Quotes for Work

35. “Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.”

— Grant Cardone

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Wealth Quotes, Financial Success Quotes

36. “Discipline yourself and others won't need to.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Graduation Quotes

37. “The safest way to get what you want is to deserve what you want.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Business Quotes, Wealth Quotes

38. “There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”

— Aldous Huxley

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Personality Quotes, Reflection Quotes, Identity Quotes

39. “Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.”

— Bob Proctor

Also featured in: Mindset Quotes, Growth Quotes, Clever Quotes

40. “The big secret in life is that there is no secret. Whatever is your goal, you can get there if you are willing to work.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work

41. “The number one key to success in life is to master your own state. If you can manage and master your states, there’s nothing you can’t do.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Inspirational Business Quotes, Live Life Quotes

42. “The successful among us delay gratification. The successful among us bargain with the future.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

43. “I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Freedom Quotes

44. “Control your thoughts. Decide about that which you will think and concentrate upon. You are in charge of your life to the degree you take charge of your thoughts.”

— Earl Nightingale

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

45. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

46. “My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes, Practice Quotes

47. “You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Morality Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Truth Quotes

48. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Meaning Quotes, Deep Quotes, Existentialism Quotes

49. “Great acts are made up of small deeds.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Wise Quotes, Encouraging Quotes

50. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes