Responsibility Quotes

"To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."

- George Washington

"In the long run, you make your own luck—good, bad, or indifferent."

- Loretta Lynn

"Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?"

- Pat Summitt

"Control your own destiny or someone else will."

- Jack Welch

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"Accountability separates the wishers from the action-takers that care enough about their future to account for their daily actions."

- John Di Lemme

"Accountability breeds responsibility."

- Stephen R. Covey

"When you take ownership of your own actions, you hold the key to your future."

- Allan Lokos

"If you drink, don’t drive. Don’t even putt."

- Dean Martin

"Discipline is helping a child solve a problem. Punishment is making a child suffer for having a problem. To raise problem solvers, focus on solutions, not retribution."

- L.R. Knost

"I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration. I can humiliate or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a child humanized or dehumanized."

- Haim G. Ginott

"Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"To send light into the darkness of men’s hearts – such is the duty of the artist."

- Schumman

"In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it."

- Ernst Fischer

"To send light into the darkness of men's hearts – such is the duty of the artist."

- Robert Schumann

"The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."

- Ronald Reagan

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."

- Ronald Reagan

"We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."

- Ronald Reagan

"We should measure welfare's success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added."

- Ronald Reagan

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."

- Ronald Reagan

"Hiring the wrong people is the fastest way to undermine a sustainable business."

- Kevin J. Donaldson

"If you put good people in bad systems, you get bad results. You have to water the flowers you want to grow."

- Stephen Covey

"Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do."

- Jonathan Safran Foer

"Safety is our first concern, not deadlines. Nothing will happen until everything is ready, and we’re absolutely confident. This will be a safe operation."

- Mikhail Manin

"Family isn't a noun. It's a verb requiring action from each member to keep the whole afloat."

"Keeping our family together means doing what's best for each individual and what's best for the family as a whole."

"Each member of this family is a first responder; when we hear the call, we don't hesitate to unite and take action."

"You either pass it back or you pass it on."

"you are entirely up to you."

"Every accident is a notice that something is wrong with men, methods, or material. Investigate—then act."