2,642 Quotes About Responsibility

Your success is your responsibility. Take the initiative, do the work, and persist to the end.

He had hopes, but hope wasn't a solution.

For if one is partly insane, one is also, juridically, partly sane, and if one is partly sane one is at least partly responsible for one's actions, and if one is partly responsible one is wholly responsible; for responsibility is, as they say, that state in which the individual has the power to devote himself to a specific purpose of his own free will, independently of any compelling necessity, and one cannot simultaneously possess and lack such self-determination.

It is a responsibility for those that see and have understanding, and choose to not be bridled by fear, to step forward and lead the way.

Managing excuses means not excusing yourself from the responsibility you need to take with your thought, words, and actions.

There are some debts that can't be paid with money.

She found herself wondering at what point in her life she had ceased to be Gulliver and had become the strings holding him to the ground.

If we want to be endowed with rights – real human rights, we have to act with responsibility. We must not be comfortable with rights. We must be comfortable with responsibility.

America comes with both rights and responsibilities. You have, for example, the right to free speech, but you have the responsibility to not yell 'fire' in a crowded theater. If you don't live up to that responsibility, you face certain consequences. It's a simple but effective formula. Unfortunately, tenured professors are completely insulated from it. They can scream fire in their classrooms all they want - and then hide behind their tenure if anyone questions them on it.