Responsibility Quotes

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors

Jonas Salk

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max De Pree

Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages

Rudyard Kipling

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

Joan Didion

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

Dalai Lama

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more

Anthony Robbins

I never look at the masses as my responsibility; I look at the individual. I can only love one person at a time - just one, one, one. So you begin. I began - I picked up one person. Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand....The same thing goes for you, the same thing in your family, the same thing in your church, your community. Just begin - one, one, one.

Mother Teresa

You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say

Martin Luther

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn

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

John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Tom Stoppard

In dreams begin responsibility.

William Butler Yeats

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Henry Ward Beecher

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Jim Rohn