Top 200 Personal Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!”

— Viktor E. Frankl

102. “Success is a decision, not a gift.”

— Steve Backley

103. “You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.”

— John Wooden

104. “The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.”

— Mary Pickford

105. “Our children are our only hope for the future, but we are their only hope for their present and their future.”

— Zig Ziglar

106. “Debt is dumb. Cash is king.”

— Dave Ramsey

107. “Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.”

— Clint Eastwood

108. “You always have a choice.”

— Michelle Hodkin

109. “If you want to keep getting what you’re getting, keep doing what you’re doing.”

— Les Brown

110. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

111. “Don’t waste your time; it is too short, valuable, and irreplaceable.”

— Mike Murdock

112. “You teach people how to treat you by what you allow, what you stop, and what you reinforce.”

— Tony Gaskins

113. “Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”

— Paulo Coelho

114. “Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.”

— Edward Young

115. “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses – only results.”

— Kenneth H. Blanchard

116. “The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands – the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

117. “Life is a series of problem-solving opportunities. The problems you face will either defeat you or develop you depending on how you respond to them.”

— Rick Warren

118. “He who pays no attention to what his neighbor does, says or thinks, preferring to concentrate on making his own actions appropriate and justifiable, better uses his time.”

— Marcus Aurelius

119. “You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

120. “Never hope for it more than you work for it.”

— Rita Mae Brown

121. “The key to success is effort. The bigger the goal, the greater the effort.”

— Michael Josephson

122. “Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be “damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.””

— Eleanor Roosevelt

123. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”

— Stephen R. Covey

124. “A man must stand erect, not be kept erect by others.”

— Marcus Aurelius

125. “Integrity is keeping a commitment even after circumstances have changed.”

— David Jeremiah

126. “Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.”

— James C. Collins

127. “Don’t mistake movement for achievement. It’s easy to get faked out by being busy. The question is: Busy doing what?”

— Jim Rohn

128. “The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.”

— John C. Maxwell

129. “Effort and hard work construct the bridge that connects your dreams to reality.”

— Daisaku Ikeda

130. “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”

— James Allen

131. “Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.”

— Jeff Bezos

132. “Use wisely your power of choice.”

— Og Mandino

133. “Tired of being unhappy? Fix it.”

— Demi Lovato

134. “Remember that if you don’t prioritize your life someone else will.”

— Greg McKeown

135. “If you can’t, then you must!”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Brian Tracy

137. “He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment.”

— Confucius

138. “No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.”

— Epictetus

139. “Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life’s purpose.”

— Robin S. Sharma

140. “Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning you give it.”

— Tony Robbins

141. “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

142. “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness.”

— Neville Goddard

143. “The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It’s time to change. It’s time to live life at a new level.”

— Tony Robbins

144. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

— Chauncey Depew

145. “Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.”

— Earl Nightingale

146. “If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips.”

— Steven Furtick

147. “If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.”

— Cory Booker

148. “Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.”

— James Allen

149. “When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

150. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy