Responsibility Quotes

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it’s addressed to someone else.
Ivern Ball

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.
Malcolm Forbes

Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
Mike Krzyzewski

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.
Edison Haines

As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama

“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”
Unknown

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Peter Drucker

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

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

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

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

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.
John D. Rockefeller

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw

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

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

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.
Richard Bach

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says “I was beaten,” he does not say “My men were beaten”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
George Eliot

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis Waitley

Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
Toni Morrison

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.
William J. Clinton

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.
Franz Kafka

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
Robert Baden-Powell

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

In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
James Taylor

A coach’s greatest asset is his sense of responsibility – the reliance placed on him by his players.
Knute Rockne

We need not be theologians to see that we have shifted responsibility for making the world interesting from God to the newspaperman.
Daniel J. Boorstin

I am the one who got myself fat, who did all the eating. So I had to take full responsibility for it.
Kirstie Alley

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.
James Baldwin

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.
David Suzuki

I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
Oliver North

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.
Lee R. Raymond

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.
Barbara Jordan

Formerly government was the responsibility of people; now people were the responsibility of government.
Garet Garrett

We are not here merely to make a living. We are here to enrich the world.
Woodrow Wilson

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

I have nothing against respecting people who lived before, but we have no responsibility toward them.
Leon Kass

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.
Christiane Amanpour

I think an artist’s responsibility is more complex than people realize.
Jodie Foster

One person doesn’t have to shoulder all the responsibility for why a film does or doesn’t do well.
Kevin Costner

Whatever happens, take responsibility.
Anthony Robbins

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
John Baptiste Moliére

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.
Walter S. Robertson

Life is a promise; fulfill it.
Mother Teresa

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon Hill

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
Brian Tracy

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
John Enoch Powell

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
William J. Bennett

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.
Benevenuto Cellini

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.
Les Brown

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Kahlil Gibran

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
General Colin Powell

Since we humans have the better brain, isn’t it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?
Joy Adamson

Too many leaders act as if the sheep.. their people.. are there for the benefit of the shepherd, not that the shepherd has responsibility for the sheep.
Ken Blanchard

A weakened sense of responsibility does not weaken the fact of responsibility.
William J. Bennett

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

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

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
Nadine Gordimer

I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
Robert A. Heinlein

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.
Albert Einstein

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
Stanley Milgram

It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Napoleon Hill