Top 200 Personal Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”

— Grenville Kleiser

152. “Life and business are like the changing seasons. You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself. Therein lies the opportunity to live an extraordinary life, the opportunity to change yourself.”

— Jim Rohn

153. “In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result.”

— James Allen

154. “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

— Aldous Huxley

155. “It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”

— George Washington

156. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

157. “Stop saying those things that make you weak and ashamed. Say only those things that make you strong. Do only those things that you could speak of with honour.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

158. “I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!”

— Theodore Roosevelt

159. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

160. “It’s always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own.”

— Paulo Coelho

161. “An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.”

— Epictetus

162. “This is your life and the clock is ticking.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

163. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

164. “Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don’t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles.”

— Tina Fey

165. “Every decision you make reflects your evaluation of who you are.”

— Marianne Williamson

166. “Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

167. “If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

168. “In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.”

— Brennan Manning

169. “If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

170. “Excuses sound best to the person that’s making ’em up!”

— Tyrese Gibson

171. “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them – every day begin the task anew.”

— Saint Francis de Sales

172. “You don’t need to change the world; you need to change yourself.”

— Miguel Ruiz

173. “You don’t drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.”

— Zig Ziglar

174. “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.”

— Bruce Springsteen

175. “Seize the day, take hold of it, and make it whatever you want.”

— Jessica Sorensen

176. “Accountability breeds response-ability.”

— Stephen R. Covey

177. “I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.”

— Joyce Meyer

178. “Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing.”

— Denis Waitley

179. “Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don’t want to do it.”

— Nathan Eldon Tanner

180. “Now, if you know what you’re worth, then go out and get what you’re worth.”

— Sylvester Stallone

181. “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.”

— Gospel of Thomas

182. “If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?”

— Maya Angelou

183. “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

— Confucius

184. “You can’t always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.”

— Tony Dungy

185. “Do something about your life now.”

— Les Brown

186. “You must gain control over your money or the lack of it will forever control you.”

— Dave Ramsey

187. “Effort is between you and you.”

— Ray Lewis

188. “Do not put off today’s work until tomorrow, lest work accumulate and you achieve nothing.”

— Umar

189. “You never want to fail because you didn’t work hard enough.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

190. “You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.”

— Stephen R. Covey

191. “When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.”

— Bob Proctor

192. “If today you are a little bit better than you were yesterday, then that’s enough. And, if tomorrow you are a little bit better than you were today, then that’s enough.”

— David A. Bednar

193. “Do every act of your life as if it were your last.”

— Marcus Aurelius

194. “An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person’s main task in life – becoming a better person.”

— Leo Tolstoy

195. “You don’t get to choose not to pay a price, you only get to choose which price you pay.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

196. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

197. “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

198. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

199. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

200. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

— Robin S. Sharma