These responsibility quotes will inspire you. Responsibility, the state or fact of being responsible, answerable, or accountable for something within one’s power, control, or management.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging responsibility quotes, responsibility sayings, and responsibility proverbs.
Best Responsibility Quotes
- “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” ~ Les Brown
- “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” ~ Abraham Lincoln , Escaping responsibility quotes
- “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 C. Maxwell
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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- 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
- “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say” ~ Martin Luther
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“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” ~ Les Brown
- “The price of greatness is responsibility.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.” ~ Robert Breault
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“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” ~ Joan Didion
- “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
- “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” ~ Sigmund Freud
- “Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” ~ Plato
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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “Everything changes for the better when you take ownership of your own problems.” ~ Robert Ringer
- “Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
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“Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.” ~ Erica Jong
- “A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” ~ James Allen
- “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.
- “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
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“You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!” ~ Douglas Adams
- “Responsibility is the price of freedom.” ~ Elbert Hubbard
- “Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.” ~ Dalai Lama
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“It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” ~ Peter Ustinov
- “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.” ~ Frank Gehry
- “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
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“The time is always right to do what is right.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “Character isn’t something you were born with and can’t change, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” ~ Booker T. Washington
- “Liberate yourself from the illusion of culture.
Take responsibility for what you think and what you do.” ~ Terence McKenna -
“Leadership – leadership is about taking responsibility, not making excuses.” ~ Mitt Romney
- “Whatever happens, take responsibility.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” ~ Abraham Lincoln
- “It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” ~ Josiah Stamp
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“Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.” ~ Tom Stoppard
- “Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.” ~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
- “We have learnt, rather too late, that action comes, not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” ~ Chuck Palahniuk , Responsibility quotes for love
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“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.” ~ Lou Holtz
- “Never trouble another for what you can do yourself” ~ Thomas Jefferson
- “It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.” ~ Noam Chomsky
- “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.” ~ Helen Keller
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“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.” ~ Napoleon Hill
- “The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.” ~ J. K. Rowling
- “Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.” ~ Malcolm Forbes
- “Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.” ~ John F. Kennedy
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“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” ~ Max De Pree
- “One must care about a world one will not see.” ~ Bertrand Russell
- “The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.” ~ Oscar Arias
- “Man needs knowledge in order to survive, and only reason can achieve it; men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason, can exist only as parasites on the thinking of others.” ~ Ayn Rand
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“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 responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.” ~ George Eliot
- “Take responsiblilty for yourself because no one’s going to take responsibility for you.” ~ Tyra Banks
- “It’s easier to be ignorant and say I don’t know about the problem. But once you know, once you’ve seen it in their eyes, then you have a responsibility to do something. There is strength in numbers, and if we all work together as a team, we can be unstoppable.” ~ Craig Kielburger , Team responsibility quotes
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“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” ~ Abigail Van Buren
- “Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? … Does man have any responsibility for the preservation of a decent balance in nature, for the preservation of rare species, or even for the indefinite continuance of his race?” ~ Kenneth E. Boulding
- “We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” ~ Carlos Castaneda
- “Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more.” ~ Mary Abigail Dodge
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“Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.” ~ Khalil Gibran
- “Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.” ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- “Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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