Quotes on Responsibility
“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