Responsibility Quotes

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions, then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

In every child who is born under no matter what circumstances and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again, and in him, too, once more, and each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life: toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terrorism, and of God.

One can pass on responsibility, but not the discretion that goes with it.

There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction. The moment you are old enough to take the wheel, the responsibility lies with you.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Taking responsibility gives us power and control, because when we recognize the relationship between our choices and their consequences, then the next time we don’t like a consequence we can make a different choice.

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.

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

Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible, though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

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

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

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let me label you as they may.

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.

The United States stands at the pinnacle of world power. This is a solemn moment for the American democracy. For with primacy in power is joined an awe-inspiring accountability for the future.

Errors are inevitable. The mark of character is not refusing to recognize them, but acknowledging them and taking responsibility.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them; power to the man who knows how.

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