Quotes about Responsibility
The jailer is you. You're the only person who has the key to your cell. You're the only one who can open the door that leads to freedom.
— Norman Vincent Peale
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
— Og Mandino
When we were given dominion over the world, we were also given dominion over ourselves. God is not our navigator. It was never His intention to chart a course for each of us and thus place us all under His bondage. Instead, He bestowed each of us with intellect and talent and vision to map our own way, to write our own Book of Life in any manner we choose.
— Og Mandino
No one else can live your life for you. No one else can succeed for you!
— Og Mandino
The only certain means of success is to render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what the task may be. This is a habit followed by all successful people since the beginning of time. Therefore I saith the surest way to doom yourself to mediocrity is to perform only the work for which you are paid.
— Og Mandino
Our worth is always determined by our deeds, not by our good intentions, however noble.
— Og Mandino
There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life. If you're holding anyone else accountable for your happiness, you're wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
— Oprah Winfrey
After the hundreds of stories I've heard of atrocities around the globe, I know that if you're a woman born in the United States, you're one of the luckiest women in the world. Take your good fortune and lift your life to its highest calling. Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
— Oprah Winfrey
There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.
— Oprah Winfrey
you are the single biggest influence in your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
What I know for sure is that whatever your situation is right now, you have played a major role in creating it. With every experience, you build your life, thought by thought, choice by choice. And beneath each of those thoughts and choices lies your deepest intention. That's why before I make any decision, I ask myself one critical question: What is my real intention?
— Oprah Winfrey
I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to.
— Oprah Winfrey