Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

I must be responsible and accountable for my actions.

Personal responsibility matters.

Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher.

He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin

You must keep your honor! You can't speak for the country; you can do little about the national economy or actions of moral weaklings who excuse themselves with the expression, "That is politics; nor can you be responsible for deception in others. But you are responsible for yourself! There are no collective panaceas - only individual ones."

Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Every person must stand up and be accountable, but be responsible for their actions.

I can't judge the way other people behave. I can only look at myself.

Every human must take responsibility for his actions.

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility.

I think people have to take responsibility for their own actions.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.

Men are more accountable for their motives, than for anything else; and primarily, morality consists in the motives, that is in the affections.

I'm really only responsible for my own actions.

We are responsible for what we do, and also for the influence of our example.

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

What you demand of others you should carry out yourself.

I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will.