What is Responsibility?

One of the things I have noticed over the years, is how important taking responsibility and being accountable is. In the following 6.19min clip, I discuss responsibility.

Being responsible for life can be challenging, however I have also found it to be a necessity as well as a very humbling/grounding experience.

10 Quotes on Responsibility –

Following are 10 quotes that may help you get clearer on what is responsibility for you –

1. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill
2. “You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.” ~ Marianne Williamson
3. “We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” ~ Carlos Costeneda
4. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
5. “Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” ~ George Washington Carver
6. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.” ~ Wayne Dyer
7. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ~ Sigmund Freud
8. “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.” ~ Hubert Selby Jr.
9. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” ~ Viktor Frankl
10. “Look at the word responsibility – “response-ability” – the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.” ~ Stephen Covey

Over to You…

I hope this post has helped you identify what is responsibility for you.

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“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

~ Jim Rohn.