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Quotes about Personal Accountability
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.
— Paul David Tripp
I would like people to recognize in looking at my story that the person who has the most to do with what happens to you is you. It's not the environment, it's not the other people who were there trying to help you or trying to stop you. It's what you decide to do and how much effort you put behind it.
— Ben Carson
If you want your life to be a magnificent story, then realize that you are its author. Every day you have the chance to write a new page in that story. I want to encourage you to fill those pages with responsibility to others and yourself. If you do, in the end you will not be disappointed.
— John Maxwell
Even when I knew people were cheating me, what was important was how I behaved, because I have to answer to God. I can't be responsible for other people's actions: They will have to answer to God themselves
— Muhammad Ali
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
— Mark Twain
They were convinced that they had made the mistake of marrying a messed-up person; they were convinced that the other had made them do things they would not otherwise have done; and they were convinced that they had no power to make the other change, although they had tried.
— Paul David Tripp
Your life is the fruit of your own doing you have no one to blame but your self
— Joseph Campbell
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Put your trust in God and take responsibility for your attitudes and actions, and stop blaming others. If you are not happy, I suggest you look inward before you look around you to find something or someone to blame.
— Joyce Meyer
No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!
— Og Mandino
A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam.
— CS Lewis