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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Some of us are better at owning the responsibility of our actions than others.

All your acts affect all the people, people that you don't even know. So we have to live with responsibility. We have to live knowing that we're not the only ones here and you're affecting somebody else always.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

I'm actually interested in poor behavior. I'm interested in what drives people to poor behavior.

We don't naturally want to take responsibility for our lives. We want to give the responsibility to someone else. We blame them when our lives aren't good.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

We have so much room for improvement. Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory... of how we are taking responsibility.

It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.