The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

                   —Stanley Milgram

God has entrusted me with myself.

                                —Epictetus

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

                                        —Plato

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

        —Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

                            —Albert Ellis

                                                     

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

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

                         —Peter Ustinov

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

     —Elizabeth Cady Stanton

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

                     —Robert Anthony

You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.

              —Peter Keostenbaum

You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because you never know when the world will need you.

                           —Rabbi Hillel