Famous Quotes about Responsibility (105 Quotations)

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.

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

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world… in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

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.

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

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

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

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

In dreams begin responsibility.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding himself.'' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.