50 Responsibility quotes that’ll make you a better person. Here are the best responsibility quotes and sayings from the great authors that will inspire you as well. May these famous responsibility quotes encourage you to be a responsible person, by accepting whatever the consequences of your actions, and to make that as your learning tool to improve yourself. Share these inspirational quotes about responsibility with your friends, family, and loved ones.
1. Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about. – Brian Tracy
2. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it. – Lou Holtz
3. Take time to accept responsibility. Your life is exactly that–it’s your life. It is created by you. You are constantly making choices, constantly creating new experiences. And although we can be affected by circumstances which can seem to be completely out of our control, essentially, we decide the direction in which we walk. – Nicholas Watkins
4. We are living in a new culture, one of responsibility dodgers and corner cutters. Nobody cares if a thing is right or not. If you try to trace a poor job or craftsmanship back, you will find, inevitably, that nobody did it. – Robert Fontaine
5. A penny saved is a penny earned. – Benjamin Franklin
6. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them. – George Bernard Shaw
7. All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won’t succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy. – Wayne Dyer
8. The price of greatness is responsibility. – Winston Churchill
9. Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know you trust him. – Booker T. Washington
10. It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities. – Josiah Stamp
11. Thank God every day when you get up that you have something to do that day which must be done whether you like it or not. Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. – Basil Carpenter
12. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have… is the ability to take on responsibility. – Michael Korda
13. If passion drive you, let reason hold the reins. – Benjamin Franklin
14. Adulthood is defined by the willingness to accept full responsibility for where you are at in life; no longer blaming others or circumstances. – Joe Westbrook
15. Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do with the ability God gave you. – Zig Ziglar
16. No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. – Gerald White Johnson
17. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. – George Bernard Shaw
18. I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. – Bob Dylan
19. A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying. – John Burroughs
20. In the end, more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all–security, comfort, and freedom. When the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free. – Sir Edward Gibbon
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21. It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. – Moliere
22. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
23. Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. – Noam Chomsky
24. Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. – Adrienne Rich
25. If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences. – Criss Jami
26. Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions, everything we have done, and have not done. – Hubert Selby Jr
27. Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts. – Patrick Ness
28. Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
29. What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice. – Ursula K. Le Guin
30. I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. – Ann Richards
31. Accepting personal responsibility for your life frees you from outside influences – increases your self-esteem – boosts confidence in your ability to decisions – and ultimately leads to achieve success in life. – Roy T. Bennett
32. As for the journey of life; at some point you will realize that YOU are the driver and you will drive! – Steve Maraboli
33. You always have a choice. Don’t ever imagine you don’t. Whatever you do, it’s a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That’s when honor becomes more than empty words. – Lynn Flewelling
34. Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation. – Dan Millman
35. Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber. – Dr. Frank Crane
36. Accountability, is the state or condition of being accountable or responsible. That is right. We are responsible for what goes on in our heads. – John Vaulkner
37. The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice. – Doug Larson
38. Take responsibility for yourself; it’s very rewarding. – Amanda Green
39. Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. – George Washington Carver
40. Deliberately take the responsibility to change your life because you can; yes you can! – Okorote Emmanuel
41. In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity. – Abraham Lincoln
42. If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim. – Richard Bach
43. Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others. – Ayn Rand
44. Taking responsibility is a commitment to own your life, to self-leadership, growth, and freedom. – Christopher Avery
45. There is always an alternative to the present urgency—and it’s not a vacation, it’s acknowledging deeper responsibility. – Stewart Brand
46. The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. – George Eliot
47. There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you. – John Wooden
48. If you believe that it is someone else’s responsibility to fix whatever needs fixing, you remain part of the problem, and, therefore, just a culpable as everyone else who believes someone else should shoulder the burden of initiating change. – Byron Pulsifer
49. To achieve life mastery and be worthy of a life well lived, we must take action, ownership, and responsibility for our choices. – Will Craig
50. Responsibility is a grace we give ourselves. It is not something imposed from outside of us. We have a say in how our life goes. – Kristen Moeller
