When you don't take responsibility, when you blame others, circumstances, fate or chance, you give away your power. When you take and retain full responsibility - even when others are wrong or the situation is genuinely unfair - you keep your life's reins in your own hands. Jeff Olson

• control
• responsibility
• blame

This is the source.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. Elie Wiesel

• power
• control

You cannot control what happens to you in life, but you can always control what you will feel and do about what happens to you. Harold Kushner

• circumstance
• control