Responsibility Quotes and Sayings

Worry less. Smile more. Listen carefully. Take responsibility. Accept what you can’t change. Embrace the lessons. Love your life. Today.

We have a Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
– Bill Maher

Being a father
My feeling of responsibility for the safety and well being of my children is so strong, (perhaps pathologically so) that should an asteroid threaten to wipe out all life on earth, I would still hold myself responsible for their fate.
– Boghos L. Artinian

I’m no one to judge but your drinking, smoking, partying every weekend ain’t going to get you where you want to be in life 10 years from now.

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

If you are looking to blame someone for the problems in your life, you don’t have to look any further than in the mirror.

Helping someone because you want to is much more appreciated than helping someone because you have to.

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

Running away from problems or troubles will make you fall into another problem or trouble.

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

Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.
– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.
– Jill Robinson

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
– Plato

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

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

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

Taking responsibility, provokes opportunity.

With adulthood comes responsibility.
– Mary Lydon Simonsen

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

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

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

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.
– Orrin Woodward

Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.
– M.F.Moonzajer

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.
– Colin Powell

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

If you’re man enough to knock her up…then, you better be man enough to support the child.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
– Moliere

Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation.
– Dan Millman

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
– Sigmund Freud