Responsibility
- The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.--Roy L. Smith
- Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility. --John O'Donohue (Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong)
- At the root of human responsibility is the concept of perfect, the urge to achieve it, the intelligence to find a path towards it, and the will to follow that path, if not to the end at least the distance needed to rise above individual limitations and environmental impediments.--Aung San Sun Kyi
- 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
- The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.--Hillary Rodham Clinton
- The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.--Stanley Milgram
- Each individual in fact has moral responsibility for the acts which he personally performs; no one can be exempted from this responsibility, and on the basis of it everyone will be judged by God himself.--Pope John Paul II ("Evangelium Vitae")
- Enough! It's time to grow up. If we want to play adult games--living our Dream--we must play by adult rules. One of the primary adult rules: We are individually responsible for our own lives.--John-Roger and Peter McWilliams (Do It! Let's Get Off our Buts)
- Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.--Hubert Selby Jr. (Requiem for a Dream)
- Every American is governed only by the principle of personal responsibility and that his or her most important freedom is the absolute freedom to flourish or fail.--Susan Wittig Albert (A Wilder Rose)
- Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.--Gail Hamilton
- Everyone is responsible and no one is to blame.--Will Schutz
- Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let things take their course without troubling over details. Such indifference is the root of all evil.--I Ching
- Excuses excuse us from fulfilling our potential.--Rhonda Britten
- Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.--Booker T. Washington
- God has entrusted me with myself.--Epictetus
- Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.--Plato
- Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.--Ronald Reagan
- The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.-- John Maxwell (Developing the Leader Within You)
- Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.--T.S. Eliot
- I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.--Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)
- I believe that all of us have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day.--William Gordon
- I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.--John D. Rockfeller, Jr.
- I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- I believe you have a responsibility to comport yourself in a manner that gives an example to others. As a young man, I prayed for success. Now I pray just to be worthy of it.--Brendan Fraser (Parade, 7/30/2000)
- 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
- I take care of myself, because I learned early on that I am the only person in life who's responsible for me.--Halle Berry
- If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors, we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.--Charles B. Newcomb
- 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
- Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.--Pauline Kael
- It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.--Josiah Stamp
- It is not size or age that separates children from adults. It is responsibility.--Jules Feiffer
- It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.--Peter Ustinov
- It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous judge who gives them exactly what they deserve. By believing that we keep the world orderly and understandable.... But [this belief] has a number of serious limitations.... It teaches people to blame themselves. It creates guilt when there is no basis for guilt. And most disturbing of all, it does not even fit the facts.--Rabbi Harold Kushner
- Let there be no doubt: as long as you continue to blame others instead of assuming your responsibilities, you will make no meaningful and enduring change for the better. What kind of people are we, if we don't have the character to own up to our own shortcomings and responsibilities? To have and enjoy certain liberties requires us to hold each other and ourselves accountable for our actions.--Gary Ryan Blair (Mind Munchies : A Delicious Assortment of Brain Snacks!)
- Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.--Abraham Lincoln (Address at Cooper Union, New York, February 27, 1860)
- Liberty means responsibility. That's why most men dread it.--Antonio de Mendoza
- Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.--Anthony Robbins
- Love yourself and watch -
Today, tomorrow, always.
To straighten the crooked
You must first do a harder thing -
Straighten yourself.--Buddha
- A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it.--Malcolm S. Forbes
- The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.--Francois Guizot
- My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.--Oprah Winfrey
- Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Our Christian community should open us up to those with whom we share this planet all over the world. It should provide us with a means of solidarity, a sense that because we are members of a human family, created by God, we are all connected and even responsible for each other.--Mark Mossa (Already There: Letting God Find You)
- People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.--Indira Gandhi (Last Words)
- Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.--Peter F. Drucker
- Responsibility is the most important ability that a person can possess.--John Maxwell (Sometimes you Win - Sometimes you Learn)
- Responsibility is the most powerful internal motivator for problem solving. When you remove it, all that remains is the lesser drive of self-preservation. If necessity is the mother of invention then responsibility is its father.--Mark A. Crouch (Bouncing Off Paper Walls)
- The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world.-Harry Truman (message to congress, April 16, 1945)
- Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.--William J. Bennett (The Book of Virtues: A Treasury of Great Moral Stories 3)
- Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.--Brian Tracey (The Treasury of Quotes)
- Some shrugged their shoulders as if to shake off whatever chips of responsibility might have lodged there.--Helen Hudson (Meyer Meyer)
- This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.--Natalie Goldberg
- To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.--Arbie M. Dale
- To live the full life, one must have the courage to bear the responsibility of the needs of others - one must want to bear this responsibility.--Aung San Suu Kyi (Freedom from Fear)
- Tomorrow's leaders not only have dreams, goals and plans. They are willing to work hard and to take responsibility for turning their plans into energy, perspiration and effort. They don't sit back and wait for someone else to turn their dreams into action. They take charge of executing their own plan.--Denis Waitley
- Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.--Helen Keller
- We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond.--Gwendolyn Brooks ("Bond")
- We have a choice: to spend a lot of time fighting for what we know is right, or to just accept what we know is wrong. We must stand up for our rights and for the rights of others, even if most people say we can't win.--Susan Polis Schutz
- We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder … whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" … The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.--John K. Rosemond ("Who's in Charge Around Here?" Hemispheres Sept. 1999)
- We must exchange the philosophy of excuse--what I am is beyond my control--for the philosophy of responsibility.--Barbara Jordan (Educom Review, 2/17/98)
- We need to teach the next generation of children from Day One that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
- When you blame others, you give up your power to change.--Robert Anthony (Dr.)
- Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.--M Scott Peck
- You are 100 percent responsible for how your children turn out. And you accomplish that by teaching them that they are 100 percent responsible for how they turn out.--Peter Keostenbaum
- You are the only one who can use your ability. It is an awesome responsibility.--Zig Ziglar (Zig Ziglar's Little Book of Big Quotes)
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.--Abraham Lincoln
- You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because you never know when the world will need you.--Rabbi Hillel
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