Memorable Quotes About Responsibility

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"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Some people skate by with a minimal amount of responsibility. They avoid life's hardest choices because they can."
Elizabeth George
"In the end, we are all accountable for our own actions and decisions - with power comes great responsibility."
Byron Pulsifer
"Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."
Benjamin Franklin
"The first step to a better life is taking responsibility."
Yasiin Bey
"Once you accept responsibility, you take the first step toward success."
Steve Maraboli
"You are always responsible for how you act, no matter how you feel."
Robert Tew
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"Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences."
Alfred A. Montapert
"Accountability is key to taking your power back and becoming the solution to the obstacles you face."
Janna Cachola
"In every area of life, the good consequences of discipline are immediate and observable, while its short-term sacrifices are only imagined."
Denis Waitley
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
Albert Einstein
"Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies."
Heather Schuck
"You must take the responsibility for your own thoughts that you think. As a man thinks, so is he."
Mary Baker Eddy
"You must take responsibility for your own happiness and not put it in the hands of others."
Roy T. Bennett
"Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work."
Adrienne Rich
"In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility."
Michael Korda
"A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom."
Bob Dylan
"There is no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."
Albert Camus
"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness."
Napoleon Hill
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming someone else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."
Oprah Winfrey
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends."
J.K. Rowling
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"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The more you take responsibility for your past and present, the more you are able to create the future you seek."
Unknown
"Don't find fault, find a remedy."
Henry Ford
"When we take the foot off the enemy's neck, we soon realize that it is our own neck."
Marianne Williamson
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."
Dalai Lama
"In dreams begin responsibilities."
W.B. Yeats
"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."
Helen Keller
"Accountability is the measure of a leader's height."
Jeffrey Benjamin
"The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same."
Steve Maraboli
"The moment you accept responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you gain the power to change anything in your life."
Hal Elrod
"The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope."
Barack Obama
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln
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"You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it."
Ken Keyes Jr.
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."
George Eliot
"Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold."
Ludwig van Beethoven
"Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
John F. Kennedy
"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
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
Dr. Robert Anthony
"Good men prefer to be accountable."
Michael Edwardes
"Never make excuses. Your friends don’t need them and your foes won’t believe them."
John Wooden
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion
"Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor, and happiness."
John Howe
"The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility."
Giosuè Borsi
"To succeed, act as if it is impossible to fail."
Dorothea Brande
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
George Bernard Shaw
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Pericles
"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
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
Erica Jong
"Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose."
Ayn Rand
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think."
Marianne Williamson
"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
Edward Everett Hale
"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
J.K. Rowling
"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
Maya Angelou
"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today."
Elbert Hubbard
"With great power comes great responsibility."
Voltaire
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own actions is the source from which self-respect springs."
Joan Didion
"You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice."
Marianne Williamson
"Responsibility is the price of freedom."
Elbert Hubbard
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
Winston Churchill
"It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do."
Moliere
"Success on any major scale requires that you accept responsibility... In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility."
Michael Korda
"If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams."
Les Brown
"It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."
Mahatma Gandhi
"Accountability breeds response-ability."
Stephen Covey
"A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life."
James Allen
"It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities."
Josiah Stamp
"You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say."
Martin Luther
"If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders."
Abigail Van Buren
"Being able to take responsibility for your own actions is the cornerstone of self-respect."
Joan Didion
"Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves."
Dale Carnegie
"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
Albert Ellis
"It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways."
Buddha
"The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life."
Hal Elrod
"Your level of success is determined by your level of discipline and perseverance."
Unknown
"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."
Jim Rohn
"Ultimately the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself."
Elie Wiesel
"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Sow an act and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny."
James Allen
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The only way to deal with responsibility is to face it head on."
Julius Erving
"When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everyone will respect you."
Lao Tzu
"To accept responsibility is to accept a destination with the knowledge that mistakes are a part of the journey."
Tina H. Smith
"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable."
Molière
"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
"Each of us has a responsibility to come together in the name of peace."
Ilham Aliyev
"We are free. The question is whether we will be responsible."
Ayn Rand
"Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power."
Josiah Gilbert Holland
"The greatest gift is the ability to forget — to forget the bad things and focus on the good."
James L. Buckley
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
C.S. Lewis
"Responsibility is not something that we choose; it always comes along with the relationship and the opportunities we have."
Nina Simons
"We must use time creatively, and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."
Confucius
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston S. Churchill
"If you want to help the world, you have to be brave enough to take on responsibilities that others shy away from."
Marie Curie
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
Pema Chödrön
"Responsibility is the essence of leadership."
Dwight D. Eisenhower
"Merely possessing the right to something doesn’t mean you’ll be responsible; it’s in the way you act upon those rights."
C. JoyBell C.
"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption."
Kurt Cobain
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life."
Muhammad Ali
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