Responsibility Quotes

«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and outrage wrought by these wretches; because, if it were not for your sanction and influence, the whole system could not keep foothold for an hour. If there were no planters except such as that one,» said he, pointing with his finger to Legree, who stood with his back to them, «the whole thing would go down like a millstone. It is your respectability and humanity that licenses and protects his brutality.»

~ Harriet Beecher Stowe

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

~ Henry Miller

There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and make yourself responsible for all men's sins, that is the truth, you know, friends, for as soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and that you are to blame for every one and for all things.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And that we are all responsible to all for all, apart from our own sins, you were quite right in thinking that, and it is wonderful how you could comprehend it in all its significance at once. And in very truth, so soon as men understand that, the Kingdom of Heaven will be for them not a dream, but a living reality.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I should have been conceived during Woodstock, it’s in my blood: that burning desire to turn an absolute on its head and see what’s underneath. I’m as random as I can be and as responsible as I should be. Attempting to fuse the two makes for interesting days.

~ Chila Woychik

We can afford to exercise the self-restraint of a really great nation which realizes its own strength and scorns to misuse it.

~ Woodrow Wilson

During the earliest attacks of Fear and intense unreality, I sometimes uttered these unconscious and shocking words: 'I should prefer to escape into madness to avoid this consuming fear.' Alas, I did not know what I was saying. In my ignorance I believed that madness was a state of insensibility where there was neither pain nor suffering nor joy, but particularly, no responsibility. Never, for one instant, has I even imagined what 'to lose one's reason' actually meant.

~ Marguerite Sechehaye

The needs are too great, and there are too few of us. We have a duty, a responsibility to help others. It’s not all about fun. It’s not always easy.

~ Leland Dirks

I'm starting to understand that attempting to be perfect has been the goal of my life. Our lives. Attempting to be this fault-free, smiling person in this loving, happy family that fits so perfectly in this pretty, inoffensive little town. What was so bad about that goal after all? Only that I couldn't do it. That I let everybody down. I've been so down about it, so depressed thinking about all the balls I was trying to juggle that I've dropped, and now the cogs are turning toward total apathy toward it all, everything and all I can think about is that I am a shell of a human being. I'm a pushover. I'm to blame.

~ Abigail Tarttelin

Stop blaming and start aiming.

~ Rob Liano

Chances are if you find yourself caught up in a political foofaraw at work, or in some family squabble at home, it's because someone else is succeeding in convincing you that his problem is your problem. The non-self-destructor recognizes this and as soon as possible, gives the sleepless night back to the person to whom it belongs.

~ Jason Seiden

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.

~ Robert Musil

THE RELIABLE WAY OUT OF OBESITY IS VIA PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. This point has been lost on the hundreds of folks who have railed against my arguments for food addiction in periodicals, so Im eager to make it here: No one but me put the food in my mouth. Even if I had grown up imprisoned in a crawl space under the basement stairs (I wasn't), even if tragedy has befallen me every 15 minutes since (it hasn't), Im still responsible for what I eat. If my food is out of control (it was), then I'm responsible for finding, requesting, and accepting the help I need.

~ Michael Prager

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.

~ Glenn Beck

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.

~ Glenn Beck

Love is more responsible, when it's titled a definite relation...

~ Sudeep Prakash Sdk

If the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

~ Dante Alighieri

Our parts now -- which perforce we must play -- are not father and daughter, but one old Abhorsen, making way for the new. But behind this, there is always my love.

~ Garth Nix

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

~ Lorii Myers

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

~ Melissa Marr

Stand in your own two shoes.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

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

~ Lorii Myers

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.

~ Bryant Mcgill

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

~ Steven J. Carroll

Desert heat or not, the idea that my younger self was facing her last moments was a bucket of cold water in the face. I didn’t like her, but she appeared to have her shit together in a way I hadn’t for a long time, and she had, frankly, deserved better than me. I tried to wet my lips, had nothing to do it with and croaked, “Sorry.” “Don’t be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

~ C.e. Murphy

Our actions are like ships which we may watch set out to sea, and not know when or with what cargo they will return to port.

~ Iris Murdoch

Freedom is not the same as lack of accountability.

~ Kevin Powers

Political action means taking on responsibility. This cannot happen without power. Power is to serve responsibility.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.

~ Glenn Beck

‎If a person is not willing to take responsibility for themselves, it does not excuse them from not taking responsibility when their bad choices affect others.

~ L.m. Fields

A father acts on behalf of his children by working, providing, intervening, struggling, and suffering for them. In so doing, he really stands in their place. He is not an isolated individual, but incorporates the selves of several people in his own self. Every attempt to live as if he were alone is a denial of the fact that he is actually responsible. He cannot escape the responsibility, which is his because he is a father. This reality refutes the fictitious notion that the isolated individual is the agent of all ethical behavior. It is not the isolated individual but the responsible person who is the proper agent to be considered in ethical reflection.

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

In bad times, a king or a queen can be a rock for the waters to crash against, so those less strong are not washed away. I will be such a rock. Only give me a chance, sweet Zoria, and I will be a rock for my people.

~ Tad Williams

And then you got us. Yeah, we stopped the zombie menace, but we're the ones who let it become a menace in the first place. At least we're cleaning up our own mess, and maybe that's the best epitaph to hope for. Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

~ Max Brooks

A moment of brilliance is not good enough to pay for your mistakes, it's taking responsibility

~ Mohamed Mohamed Adel

A student was given a mentoring opportunity, in the hope that when you had somebody to lean on you, you would begin to stand a little steadier yourself, and get manliness and thoughtfulness.

~ Thomas Hughes

No man can choose to serve only himself when he has something to offer his state. No one can put his own wishes above the needs of so many.

~ Megan Whalen Turner

Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

~ Anne Holm

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

~ Mark Twain

The irresponsible mother helped explain bella's maturity. She'd had to grow up early, to become the caretaker. That's why she didn't like being cared for- she felt it was her job.

~ Stephenie Meyer