Responsibility - Quotes

A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the ‘why’ for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any ‘how’. - Viktor Frankl

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

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

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders. - Abigail Van Buren

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

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

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. - Gerald White Johnson

Our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are, but we are responsible for who we become. - Unknown

Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live. - Kevin Bacon

Responsibility can upgrade the ‘doer’ into ‘thinker’. - Unknown

Responsibility is the price of freedom. - Elbert Hubbard

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fibre. - Frank Crane

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

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man. - Roy L. Smith

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities." - Richard Bach

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that’s the day you start to the top. - O.J. Simpson

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves. - Oscar Arias Sanchez

The price of greatness is responsibility. - Winston Churchill

The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs. - Unknown

To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. - Patrick Ness

To the victor belong the responsibilities. - Al Bernstein 

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible. - Allan Massie

When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger, put him to poverty, place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent. - Meng Tzu

Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress. - I Ching

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

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. - Denis Waitley

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