2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

A writer who won’t take moral responsibility may be a good writer, but he’s a shitty human being in my book.- (Salem's lot deleted scenes)

Then what is this if it isn’t telling me? Sure, he was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were.

Lots of couples get stuck blaming and finger-pointing about topics and can feel likethere’s no way out.The antidote to blame is personal accountability.Moving to a mindset of accountability means looking at and owning your contribution to theconflict (however small it may be).

A moment when the worst had already happened, so there was nothing left to worry about. I wanted to stop forever in that pause between cause and effect. A place where I didn’t have to be responsible for everybody all of the time.

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen exposed nearly its oldest part. I had lost my sense of urgency, rekindled a sense of what people were, clambering to gain access to high waterfalls and a sense of our endless struggle as a species to understand time and to estimate the consequences of our acts.

Have I, have you, been too silent? Is there an easy crime of silence?

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

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.