I’ve done a page on responsibility quotes before, but here’s a few more, just for fun:

Responsibility is something you take as a matter of fact, like breathing air; living without it is impossible, but do not think about it too much. -Jacob Gelt Dekker

The mold of a man’s fortune is in own hands. -Francis Bacon

Nothing happens by itself… It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. -Bein Stein

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. -Samuel Smiles

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

I was taught very clearly that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands. -Darius Ogden Mills

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 man carries his success or his failure with him…he does not depend on outside conditions. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not in time, place or circumstances, but in the man lies success…. -Charles B. Rouss

Provision for others is the fundamental responsibility of human life. -Woodrow Wilson

Responsibility is to keep the ability to respond. -Robert Duncan

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -Calvin Coolidge

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. -Albert Einstein

There are two primary choices of life: To accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility of changing them. -Denis Waitley