personal responsibility
Owning your actions
Personal responsibility is the idea that individuals are accountable for their own choices, actions, and circumstances.
The phrase often appears in political and moral discourse, sometimes genuinely advocating self-reliance, sometimes dismissing systemic factors: He blamed poverty on a lack of personal responsibility.
To take personal responsibility is to own one's mistakes rather than deflect blame.
- accountabilityObligation for one's actions
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- honestyTruthfulness, sincerity
- buck stops hereAccepting ultimate responsibility
- autonomyIndependent decision-making capacity
ownership · answerability · self-discipline · pull your weight · conscientiousness · organization · reliability · culpability · face the music · self-awareness · trustworthiness · consequences · no excuses · agency · self-governance · follow-through · respect · self-reliance
- Individualismindividualism, self-reliance, nonconformity, autonomy, independence
- dutiesduty, task, obligation, moral obligation, ethical duty
- workplace autonomyself-direction, self-management, independent work, decision making, discretion
- humanismsecular humanism, Renaissance humanism, classical humanism, humanist values, human dignity
- Puritan virtuespiety, frugality, self-denial, modesty, sobriety
- Teen Autonomyindependence, self-determination, self-governance
personal responsibilityblaming others
Assigning fault elsewhere
blame-shifting · scapegoating · finger-pointing · making excuses · deflection
personal responsibilityirresponsibility
Failure to meet obligations
dependence · learned helplessness · abdication · helplessness · passivity
personal responsibilityirresponsibility
Failure to meet obligations
negligence · carelessness · amorality · self-indulgence · impunity