“With great power comes great responsibility.” —Voltaire
“Responsibility is the price of greatness.” —Winston Churchill
“Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.”
“No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.”
“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.” —Josiah Gilbert Holland
“Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress.” —I Ching
“Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.” —Thomas Jefferson
“Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” —George Bernard Shaw
“No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.” —William Penn
“I must do something’ always solves more problems than something must be done.’” —Unknown
“Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.” —Orrin Woodward
“To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.” —Patrick Ness
“Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”
“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” —Les Brown
“Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.” —Epictetus
“Responsibility’s like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.” —William McFee
“Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.” —Brian Tracy
“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” —Abigail Van Buren
“It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” —Josiah Charles Stamp
“It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.” —Stanley Milgram
“A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.” —Ralph Waldo Trine
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.” —Moliere
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.” —James Allen
“No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.” —Gerald W Johnson
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility.” —Albert Einstein
“Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.” —Les Brown
“It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.”
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.” —Les Brown
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with — a man is what he makes of himself.” —Alexander Graham Bell
“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
“Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” —Anne Frank
“Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing… they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.” —Samuel Smiles
“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 fiber.” —Frank Crane
“Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give [life] a meaning.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do.” —Helen Keller
“People think responsibility is hard to bear. It’s not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of importance.” —Henry Kissinger
“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
“A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.” —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.” —“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
Inspirational Quotes on Responsibility
“The price of greatness is responsibility.” —Winston Churchill
“In dreams begin responsibilities.” —W.B. Yeats
“No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” —Abraham Lincoln
“The time is always right to do what is right.” —Martin Luther King, Jr.
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” —Bob Dylan
“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” —Doug Larson
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” —George Washington Carver
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” —Sigmund Freud
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” —Lou Holtz
“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.” —Jim Rohn
“We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.” —Carlos Costeneda
“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” —Louis Nizer
“Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.” —Hubert Selby Jr.
“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
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.” —Wayne Dyer
“You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.” —Marianne Williamson
“Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” —Viktor Frankl
“Look at the word responsibility – “response-ability” – the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.” —Stephen Covey