Responsibility Quotes

We are each responsible for our own life - no other person is or even can be.- Oprah Winfrey

 

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility.- Stephen W. Comiskey

 

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

 

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.- Les Brown

 

Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.- James Cash Penney

 

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.- Tom Stoppard

 

The price of greatness is responsibility.- Winston Churchill

 

Accountability breeds response-ability.- Stephen R. Covey

 

Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.- Anonymous

 

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.- Martin Luther

 

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility ... In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have ... is the ability to take on responsibility.- Michael Korda

 

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.- Oprah Winfrey

 

If you take care of your immediate surroundings, the universe will take care of itself.- Mahatma Gandhi

 

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.- Abraham Lincoln

 

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility.- Albert Einstein

 

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.- Anthony Robbins

 

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.- William Pollard

 

Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge.- Mahatma Gandhi

 

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.- Louis Nizer

 

It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.- J. W. Goethe

 

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.- Les Brown

 

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.- Booker T. Washington

 

The price of greatness is responsibility.- Winston Churchill

 

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.- Josiah Charles Stamp

 

A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.-Aaron Sorkin

 

Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.-Aaron Sorkin

 

And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.-Warren Farrell

 

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.-Dalton Trumbo

 

In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.-Angela Merkel

 

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.-Neal Boortz

 

Our only responsibility is to live our own life and take care of our own children.-Leon Kass

 

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.-Leon Kass

 

I think the greater responsibility, in terms of morality, is where leadership begins.-Norman Lear

 

True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.-Philip Pullman

 

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.-Michael Korda

 

Love always involves responsibility, and love always involves sacrifice. And we do not really love Christ unless we are prepared to face His task and to take up His Cross.-William Barclay

 

I can't convince you to put the drink down if you're an alcoholic, you have to want to do that. I can't convince you to stop eating the cookies when you're a diabetic. You have to do that. And that takes responsibility.-Don Young

 

The Supreme Court, of course, has the responsibility of ensuring that our government never oversteps its proper bounds or violates the rights of individuals. But the Court must also recognize the limits on itself and respect the choices made by the American people.-Elena Kagan

 

I think that if there are positions that you can't argue... then the responsibility is probably to resign. If one's own conscience is opposed to the requirements and responsibilities of the job, then it's time to leave the job.-Elena Kagan

 

It's a huge responsibility being a solo act.-Robbie Williams

 

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.-Manmohan Singh

 

One can say that three pre-eminent qualities are decisive for the politician: passion, a feeling of responsibility, and a sense of proportion.-Max Weber

 

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.-John Mellencamp

 

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.-Coolio

 

It's not someone else's responsibility to honor my marriage. It's my responsibility.-David Duchovny

 

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.-James Bovard

 

IT professionals have a responsibility to understand the use of standards and the importance of making Web applications that work with any kind of device.-Tim Berners-Lee

 

The responsibility of commanding the invasion fell to me, and the task was assigned to my Army Group.-Gerd von Rundstedt

 

Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.-Rick Ross

 

Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both.-Arsene Wenger

 

But I feel that I have a responsibility to help the film and I have relations with the studio and with those who put up the money so that I can tell a story that I believe in.-Kevin Spacey

 

I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.-Kevin Spacey

 

We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.-Gladys Knight

 

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.-Arlo Guthrie

 

I don't believe he had a responsibility to even answer that question - you have no responsibility to answer personal questions that people have no right to ask you.-Chris Matthews

 

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.-J. Enoch Powell

 

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.-James Baldwin

 

Caring for our children and making sure they do not get addicted to drugs is all of our responsibility.-Joe Baca

 

I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety.-Kevyn Aucoin

 

If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.-Lewis Thomas

 

Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.-Timothy Geithner

 

That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.-Eric Carle

 

I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out.-Roger Ebert

 

It's a huge challenge, a huge responsibility. Bond is a huge iconic figure in movie history. These opportunities don't come along very often so I thought, 'Why not?'-Daniel Craig

 
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