Famous Responsibility Quotes

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

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

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

One must care about a world one will not see.

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

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.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

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

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.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.