Responsibility Quotes

"No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education."

- Plato

"If you don’t manage your life, your life will manage you."

- St. C

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

- Les Brown

"People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead."

- James Baldwin

"We are responsible for the world in which we find ourselves, if only because we are the only sentient force which can change it."

- James Baldwin

"You can't control the umpire's call, but you can control your hustle."

- Ichiro Suzuki

"One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes…and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"What you don’t do can be a destructive force."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"The man who never has money enough to pay his debts has too much of something else."

- James Lendall Basford

"All good men and women must take responsibility to create legacies that will take the next generation to a level we could only imagine."

- Jim Rohn

"Always plan ahead: it wasn’t raining when Noah built the ark."

- Richard Cushing

""Every time you borrow money, you're robbing your future self.""

- Nathan W. Morris

"Let's put the safety and security of the American people first."

- Mike Pence

"We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers."

- William J. H. Boetcker

"I will never, ever apologize for protecting the safety and security of the American people."

- Donald Trump

"We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows. Choose a place where you won't do harm - yes, choose a place where you won't do very much harm, and stand in it for all you are worth, facing the sunshine."

- E.M. Forster

"If you don’t look good, we don’t look good."

- Vidal Sassoon

"Caring for our seniors is perhaps the greatest responsibility we have. Those who walked before us have given us so much and made possible the life we all enjoy."

- Senator John Hoeven

"A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right."

- David Lammy

"Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be."

- Douglas MacArthur

"The duties of an officer are the safety of the community and the integrity of the law."

- Samuel Jones

"Outcome is not in your control. What's in your control is your effort and your intentions."

- Amit Sood

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"“What I can do for my country, I am willing to do.”"

- Christopher Gadsen

"Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pelé. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man."

- Pele

"You will never become who you want to be if you keep blaming everyone else for who you are now."

"I live my life in direct proportion to the commitments I make and keep."

"If you really need a reminder to do this, tender your resignation immediately so a grown up can take your spot."

"The sky is a reminder that we are all capable of responsibility."