Top 200 Personal Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “While you're out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

52. “Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

— David Starr Jordan

53. “Consistency is the key! If you can’t be consistent, then you can’t be anything.”

— Tony Gaskins

54. “If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”

— Dave Ramsey

55. “Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.”

— Marcus Aurelius

56. “Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.”

— John C. Maxwell

57. “You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.”

— Abdul Kalam

58. “Control your own mind, and you may never be controlled by the mind of another.”

— Napoleon Hill

59. “Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.”

— Swami Vivekananda

60. “You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”

— Joyce Meyer

61. “If you conquer yourself, then you conquer the world.”

— Paulo Coelho

62. “I never want money that I didn’t earn.”

— Casey Neistat

63. “If I can’t – then I must. If I must – then I will.”

— Tony Robbins

64. “I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

65. “Procrastination is a lazy man’s apology.”

— Chinua Achebe

66. “I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me. ”

— Jim Rohn

67. “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.”

— Epictetus

68. “Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you should set up a life you don’t need to escape from.”

— Seth Godin

69. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Denis Waitley

70. “What you do has far greater impact than what you say.”

— Stephen R. Covey

71. “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.”

— Voltaire

72. “Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.”

— Billy Graham

73. “Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

— Thomas Carlyle

74. “Happiness is not the belief that we don’t need to change; it’s the realization that we can.”

— Shawn Achor

75. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

76. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

— William James

77. “Actions speak louder than words; let your words teach and your actions speak.”

— Anthony of Padua

78. “You make your own luck.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

79. “There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity.”

— Tom Peters

80. “The word accounting comes from the word accountability. If you are going to be rich, you need to be accountable for your money.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

81. “Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.”

— Ayn Rand

82. “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

— Brian Tracy

83. “We always have a choice.”

— Tony Robbins

84. “With self-discipline most anything is possible.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

85. “As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else’s.”

— Grant Cardone

86. “Start where you are, use what you have.”

— Arthur Ashe

87. “I always finish what I start.”

— Ally Carter

88. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.”

— M. Scott Peck

89. “Leave it better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

90. “Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

91. “Your life is too important to give it to distractions.”

— Robin S. Sharma

92. “It is what it is. But, it will be what you make it.”

— Pat Summitt

93. “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!”

— Rudyard Kipling

94. “There is no such thing as time management; there is only self-management.”

— Rory Vaden

95. “Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

— Les Brown

96. “You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”

— Osho

97. “The book you don't read can't help.”

— Jim Rohn

98. “Thoughts lead to feelings. Feelings lead to actions. Action leads to results.”

— T. Harv Eker

99. “Time is a precious thing. Never waste it.”

— Gene Wilder

100. “The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

— Carlos Castaneda