We are responsible for own effectiveness, for our own happiness, and ultimately ... for most of our circumstances.

The one with the primary responsibility to the individual's future is that individual.

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

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.

It may not be your fault for being down, but it's got to be your fault for not getting up.

It is so much easier to blame other people, conditioning, or conditions for our own stagnant situation. But we are responsible — "response-able" — to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.

Love — the feeling — is a fruit of love, the verb.

Reactive people make it [love] a feeling. Hollywood has generally scripted us to believe that we are a product of our feelings. But the Hollywood script does not describe the reality. If our feelings control our actions, it is becasue we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms, examine them, test them against reality, listen to others and be open to their perceptions, thereby getting a larger picture and a far more objective view.

The critical responsibility for the generation you're in is to help provide the shoulders, the direction, and the support for those generations who come behind.

A successful person realizes his personal responsibility for self-motivation. He starts with himself because he possesses the key to his own ignition switch.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.