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

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.
~John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

It is easy to dodge our responsibility, but we can not dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
~Josiah Charles Stamp

Consequence is no coincidence.
~Lauryn Hill

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Be the change you want to see in this world.
~Mahatma Gandhi

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
~James Allen

God has entrusted me with myself.
~Epictetus

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~George Bernard Shaw

You’re not the only one who’s made mistakes
But they’re the only thing that you can truly call your own
~Billy Joel

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.
~Louis Nizer

“It’s a question of discipline,” the little prince told me later on. “When you’ve finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.”
~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince

Said the foreigner on ferry upon seeing the Statue Of Liberty in New York City for the first time, “That’s nice, but incomplete. Is there a Statue Of Responsibility in San Francisco?”
~My Great-Grand Uncle Leonardo J. Victoria

While incarcerated on Robben Island prison, Nelson Mandela recited this poem to other prisoners and was empowered by its message of self mastery.  If you haven’t seen the movie Invictus yet, I highly recommend it.  Here is the poem the movie is titled after.

Invictus
by William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.