Responsibility Quotes

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Les Brown

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Peter Nivio Zarlenga

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

George O'Neil

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

JeanPaul Sartre

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

JeanPaul Sartre

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

Cyril James

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Tom Stoppard

As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive!

Steve Maraboli

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

Mark Twain

Each is responsible for his own actions.

H. L. Hunt

Responsibility is a tremendous engine in a free government

Thomas Jefferson

One must care about a world one will not see.

Bertrand Russell

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.

Christopher Hitchens

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Rose Wilder Lane

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

Friedrich A. Hayek

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

Alexis Carrel, Reflections on Li