We are responsible for our own actions

I don't have a lot of interesting things to share here, so I thought I would take time to find some great words of wisdom. The kind of words that are not just words. They are for real. Anyway, I am sharing them here for enjoyment. I don't know the authors, but since they are worth sharing, I have them here. I picked them up from different places. Okay, enjoy peeps!!!

“We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.”

The first and most basic habit of a highly effective person in any environment is the habit of proactivity. Being proactive means that as human beings; we are responsible for our own lives. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. We can subordinate feelings to values. We have the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

Look the word responsibility—response-ability—the ability to choose your responses. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.