Responsibility Quotes

"You fail all the time, but you aren't a failure until you start blaming someone else."

- Bum Phillips

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

"The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Be accountable if you want to count."

- Harvey Mackay

"When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness."

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Loretta Lynn

"Liberty means responsibility. That is why most people dread it."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity."

- Marie Curie

"You have exactly one life in which to do everything you'll ever do. Act accordingly."

- Colin Wright

"Those who escape from the sun and take shelter under the clouds no longer have the right to complain about the rain!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"If every day were Earth Day we wouldn't be in the mess we're in."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

"The hard truth seems to be this: We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our lives and our fragile realm derives from our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We would prefer it to be otherwise, of course, but there is no compelling evidence for a cosmic Parent who will care for us and save us from ourselves. It is up to us."

- Carl Sagan

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

- Maria Shriver

"No one is ever quite ready; everyone is always caught off guard. Parenthood chooses you. And you open your eyes, look at what you've got, say 'Oh, my gosh,' and recognize that of all the balls there ever were, this is the one you should not drop. It's not a question of choice."

- Marisa de los Santos

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"

- John F. Kennedy

"Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan"

- John F. Kennedy

"When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens"

- John F. Kennedy

"The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge; for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."

- Marya Mannes

"You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth."

- Julia Butterfly Hill

"Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future"

- John F. Kennedy

"Increased responsibility goes with increased ability, for 'of those to whom much is given, much is required"

- John F. Kennedy

"We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect"

- John F. Kennedy

"Artists are the gatekeepers of truth. We are civilization's radical voice."

- Paul Robeson

"Never before has man had such capacity to control his own environment, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or make it the last"

- John F. Kennedy

"This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait."

- Natalie Goldberg

"It is every citizen's duty to challenge their leaders, to keep them honest and hold them accountable if they're not."

- Ahsoka Tano

"I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents."

- Carol Moseley Braun

"We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings."

- Helen Keller

"We have an obligation to ourselves and to our communities to be bigger than the moment."

- Brittany Packnett Cunningham

"The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

- Mark Twain