Responsibility Quotes

"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong."

- Donald Porter

"There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else."

- Sam Walton

"You control your own wins and losses."

- Maria Sharapova

"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own."

- Confucius

"Much is required from those to whom much is given."

- Luke 12:48

"It is not your customer’s job to remember you, it is your obligation and responsibility to make sure they don’t have the chance to forget you."

- Patricia Fripp

"Customers don’t expect you to be perfect. They expect you to fix things when they go wrong."

- Donald Porter

"It takes months to find a customer … seconds to lose one."

- Vince Lombardi

"Life is like a moving river, and you can be at the mercy of the river if you don’t take action to steer yourself in a predetermined direction."

- Mahesh Jethmalani

"Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it."

- Valerie Jarrett

"The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make."

- Patrick Murphy

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not."

- Dr. Seuss

"It is wise to direct your anger towards problems – not people; to focus your energies on answers – not excuses."

- William Arthur Ward

"To be a professional, you have to act like one as well."

- Marcelo Bielsa

"If we are going to be part of the solution, we have to engage the problems."

- Majora Carter

"The laws of Chess do not permit a free choice: you have to move whether you like it or not"

- Emanuel Lasker

"I’m not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions."

- Stephen Covey

"At the end of the day, you are solely responsible for your success and your failure. And the sooner you realize that, you accept that, and integrate that into your work ethic, you will start being successful. As long as you blame others for the reason you aren’t where you want to be, you will always be a failure."

- Erin Cummings

"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

- Denis Waitley

"You can control two things: your work ethic and your attitude about anything."

- Ali Krieger

"When I win and when I lose, I take ownership of it, because I really am in charge of what I do."

- Nicki Minaj

"Having kids—the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings—is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"Children are not a distraction from more important work. They are the most important work."

- C.S. Lewis

"My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously."

- Venus Williams

"Having kids – the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings – is the biggest job anyone can embark on."

- Maria Shriver

"Predicting rain doesn’t count. Building arks does."

- Warren Buffett

"For everyone has his own burden to bear."

- Galatians 6:5

"“Whether through work or love or art, life becomes more meaningful whenever we take responsibility for something or someone. Responsibility is not always pleasurable or even positive, but it is purposeful.”"

"I must bring them all up to be useful- to depend upon themselves; there is not a moment to be lost, and not a moment shall be lost; I will do my best and trust to God."