Responsibility Quotes

Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.

~ Rodolfo Costa

An important decision I made was to resist playing the Blame Game. The day I realized that I am in charge of how I will approach problems in my life, that things will turn out better or worse because of me and nobody else, that was the day I knew I would be a happier and healthier person. And that was the day I knew I could truly build a life that matters.

~ Steve Goodier

I am responsible for my own existence and happiness.

~ Nathaniel Branden

Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.

~ Steve Maraboli

When I say maturity, I mean an inner integrity. And this inner integrity comes only when you stop making others responsible, when you stop saying that the other is creating your suffering, when you start realizing that you are the creator of your suffering. This is the first step towards maturity: I am responsible. Whatsoever is happening, it is my doing.You feel sad. Is this your doing? You will feel very much disturbed, but if you can remain with this feeling, sooner or later you will be able to stop doing many things. This is what the theory of karma is all about. You are responsible. Don’t say society is responsible, don’t say that parents are responsible, don’t say the economic conditions are responsible, don’t throw the responsibility onto anybody. YOU are responsible.

~ Osho

I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.

~ Petek Kabakci

You have the right to promote your own happiness just like everyone else, just like me. Your present dream has been shattered, but you can dream another. You should know that 'you can't relive old dreams.' Even if you force them to come true, they won't bring you happiness.

~ Mao Dun

Maybe that was the secret to happiness, I thought, being free of the responsibility of yourself.

~ Alexandra Kleeman

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

~ John Lennon

He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did.

~ Laini Taylor

How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone “reaping” than “killing”—and when one knows that death isn’t the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?

~ Neal Shusterman

A man must be prepared to face life, as well as death, there's no escape from either.

~ Ellis Peters

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

F.U.R FOCUS-URGENCY-RESPONSIBILITY--- As a team you can move mountains without any effort, simply because of our combined faith and commitment!

~ Katlego Semusa

It seems that the Parisian Oulipo group has recently constructed a matrix of all possible murder-story situations and has found that there is still to be written a book in which the murderer is the reader.Moral: there exist obsessive ideas, they are never personal; books talk among themselves, and any true detection should prove that we are the guilty party.

~ Umberto Eco

The price of greatness is responsibility.

~ Winston S. Churchill

The only parts that really matter and take commitment in wedding vows are; worse, sickness and poorer. Better, richer and healthy is pretty easy to deal with.

~ Rob Liano

I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.

~ Christopher Hitchens

It was not enough that food aplenty was within Man’s grasp: he wanted more.It was not enough that prey surrendered themselves to Man according to the natural order: Man wanted to cook his prey. Man had discovered fire when lightning stuck and set a tree or two alight, but he was clumsy and greedy and stupid and could not keep the flame alive

~ David Bowles

Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience. But a breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul. Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality.

~ Ayn Rand

I am blind and limited. I would be a fool think myself wise. And so, not knowing what the universe means, I can only try to be responsible with the knowledge, the strength, and the time given to me. I must be true to my heart.

~ Jim Butcher

When all this is over, people will try to blame the Germans alone, and the Germans will try to blame the Nazis alone, and the Nazis will try to blame Hitler alone. They will make him bear the sins of the world. But it's not true. You suspected what was happening, and so did I. It was already too late over a year ago. I caused a reporter to lose his job because you told me to. He was deported. The day I did that I made my little contribution to civilization, the only one that matters.

~ Iain Pears

The leaders have the responsibility to protect and hold in high esteem the law and virtues of the land.

~ Sunday Adelaja

It is our responsibility to enlighten our people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Individuals should take personal responsibility for knowledge acquisition and campaigns against ignorance.

~ Sunday Adelaja

We have to make it a personal responsibility to eradicate ignorance from our society.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When there is no personal responsibility in any society, there cannot be a responsible government.

~ Sunday Adelaja

God does not have any business with irresponsible people.

~ Sunday Adelaja

There is always a great price to pay for irresponsibility.

~ Sunday Adelaja

When people refuse to pay the price of personal responsibility for the problems of the nation, these same people end up paying the high price of irresponsibility, which is often in tragedy and sorrow.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Responsible government is an off shoot of a culture of personal responsibility.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Everything in the society that is wrong is our responsibility to fix.

~ Sunday Adelaja

If Nigeria will change for the better, then we must take responsibility for the changes in Nigeria.

~ Sunday Adelaja

...sometimes it's best not to know, because even when you know, it doesn't matter anyway. Ignorance is bliss. Knowledge is often a responsibility nobody wants.

~ Cecelia Ahern

You cannot do everything by yourself, you need to learn how to delegate responsibility and trust people that everything will be done on time and with highest quality

~ Sunday Adelaja

Now if we only knew what it means to know, we would be conscious.

~ Atom Tate

Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out if, in any sense, you missed a spot.

~ Criss Jami

Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.

~ Shannon A. Thompson