Responsibility Quotes
 

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

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility. -Cyril Connolly
 

I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
-Edward Everett Hale
 

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation. -C. Everett Koop

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
 

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice. -Doug Larson
 

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

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

 

One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license. -P. J. O'Rourke
 

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. -Arnold J. Toynbee

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. -Peter Ustinov
 

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. -Booker T. Washington


This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.  -Elie Wiesel

The price of power is responsibility for the public good. - Winthrop W. Aldrich

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood. - Anonymous

There has been in recent years excessive emphasis on a citizen's rights and inadequate stress upon his duties and responsibilities. - Paxton Blair

In your area of responsibility, if you do not control events, you are at the mercy of events. - Harland Svare

I feel the responsibility of the occasion.  Responsibility is proportionate  to opportunity. - Woodrow Wilson

The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security. - Robert Welch

Responsibility educates. - Wendell Phillips

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