Quotes about responsibility

How can I blame the wind for the mess it made, if it was me who opened the window.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Your wound is not your fault but your healing is your responsibility.

When you're born you look like your parents. When you die you look like your decisions.

Some things are within our control and some things are not. Within our control are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion, and our actions. Not within our control are our body, property, reputation, and office.

If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid regarding externals.

It is not things themselves that trouble us, but our judgements about those things.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most.

Greater virtues are required to bear good fortune than bad.