“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~Abraham Lincoln~

“The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there’s only one other choice.” ~Doug Larson~

“Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.” ~W. H. Audex~

“Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.” ~Booker T. Washington~

“I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have life itself.” ~ Walter Anderson ~

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” ~ Les Brown ~

“All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster’s eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.” ~ Thomas Carlyle ~

“Nobody can do it for you.” ~ Ralph Cordiner ~

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~ Joan Didion ~

“Good men prefer to be accountable.” ~ Michael Edwardes ~

“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”

~ Nadine Gordimer ~

“If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.” ~ August Heckscher ~

“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland ~

“The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.”

~ Roy L. Hunt ~

“A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.”

~ Cyril James ~

“I guess more players lick themselves than are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.”

~ Connie Mack ~

“We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.”

~ Bill Maher ~

“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ~ Stanley Milgram ~

“We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.” ~ Mildred Newman ~

“When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.” ~ George O’Neil ~

“I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.” ~ John Enoch Powell ~

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.” ~ Ronald Reagan ~

“Whatever happens, take responsibility.”

~ Anthony Robbins ~

“The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.”

~ Walter S. Robertson ~

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession a duty.”

~ John D. Rockefeller ~

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” ~ Jim Rohn ~

“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.” ~ Jean-Paul Sartre ~

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will — his personal responsibility.” ~ Albert Schweitzer ~

“Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton ~

“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.” ~ Tom Stoppard ~

“From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.” ~ Tecumseh ~

“Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.” ~ Source Unknown ~

“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.” ~ Denis Waitley ~

“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” ~ Andy Warhol ~

“I know that no one can really stop me but myself and really no one can help me but myself.” ~ Peter Nivio Zarlenga ~

– Various