220 Responsibility Quotes to Make You a Better Person

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1. “You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

2. “Take responsibility for your own happiness, never put it in other people’s hands.” – Roy T. Bennett

3. “The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.” – George R.R. Martin

4. “You’re responsible for your rose.” – Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

5. “We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.” –

6. “If you hang out with chickens, you’re going to cluck; and if you hang out with , you’re going to fly.” – Steve Maraboli

7. “People like to say love is unconditional, but it’s not, and even if it was unconditional, it’s still never free. There’s always an expectation attached. They always want something in return. Like they want you to be happy or whatever and that makes you automatically responsible for their happiness because they won’t be happy unless you are. I just don’t want that responsibility.” – Katja Millay

8. “To pretend, I actually do the thing—I have therefore only pretended to pretend.” – Jacques Derrida

9. “Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.” – Sigmund Freud

10. “The price of greatness is responsibility.” –

11. “I’m not much, but I’m all I have.” – Philip K. Dick

12. “To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.” – Patrick Ness

13. “The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and attitudes does not need to be discouraging, because it also means that we are free to change this destiny.” –

14. “Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.” – Noam Chomsky

15. “If you build the guts to do something—anything—then you better save enough to face the consequences.” – Criss Jami

16. “Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.” – John F. Kennedy

17. “The function of freedom is to free someone else.” –

18. “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” – George Bernand Shaw

19. “In dreams begin responsibilities.” – William Butler Yeats

20. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.” –

21. “The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.” –

22. “Each one of us is responsible for the world—each one of us must give a hand to build our world in a humane manner, crossing faith, fate, and family.” – Abhijit Naskar

23. “We have a responsibility to influence the people in our lives to be the best possible people they can be.” – Henry Cloud

24. “The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.” – George Eliot

25. “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.” – Adrienne Rich

26. “You’ve got a lot of responsibility now. You’ll have to make sure Emma winds up with a guy who deserves her.” – Cassandra Clare

27. “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.” –

28. “Learn to distinguish the difference between errors of knowledge and breaches of morality. An error of knowledge is not a moral flaw, provided you are willing to correct it; only a mystic would judge human beings by the standard of an impossible, automatic omniscience.” – Ayn Rand

29. “Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have no choice is to release yourself from responsibility and that’s not how a person with integrity acts.” – Patrick Ness

30. “Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves.” –

31. “If you can take responsibility for your own life, then you will begin to realize that you can change it.” – H. K. Abell

32. “Take responsibility for yourself; it’s very rewarding.” – Amanda Green

33. “Deliberately take the responsibility to change your life because you can; yes you can!” – Okorote Emmanuel

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

35. “Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way—stop participating in it.” – Noam Chomsky

36. “A breach of morality is the conscious choice of an action you know to be evil, or a willful evasion of knowledge, a suspension of sight and of thought. That which you do not know, is not a moral charge against you; but that which you refuse to know, is an account of infamy growing in your soul.” – Ayn Rand

37. “This I choose to do. If there is a price, this I choose to pay. If it is my death, then I choose to die. Where this takes me, there I choose to go. I choose. This I choose to do.” – Terry Prachett

38. “Like crying wolf, if you keep looking for sympathy as a justification for your actions, you will someday be left standing alone when you really need help.” – Criss Jami

39. “Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

40. “Accountability is the state or condition of being accountable or responsible. That is right. We are responsible for what goes on in our heads.” – John Vaulkner

41. “If you believe that it is someone else’s responsibility to fix whatever needs fixing, you remain part of the problem, and therefore, just as culpable as everyone else who believes someone else should shoulder the burden of initiating change.” – Byron Pulsifer

42. “Quitting and blaming have become more common in today’s culture rather than perseverance and responsibility.” – Dr. Rob Bell

43. “Responsibility changes everything. The moment we decide that we are the ones who are capable of and responsible for changing things, everything shifts.” – John B. Izzo

44. “ is no more than what we create, and without taking responsibility for our own lives, our own destiny, luck will fail us.” – Byron Pulsifer

45. “Eventually, we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions—everything we have done, and have not done.” – Hubert Selby Jr.

46. “Make every allowance for errors of knowledge; do not forgive or accept any break of morality.” – Ayn Rand

47. “To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn’t just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it’s an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.” – David McCullough

48. “No matter or rejects you, only you can take responsibility for your mental attitude.” – John Hagee

49. “Take responsibility for your own learning and for the learning of those around you.” – Don Meyer

50. “Taking responsibility is a commitment to own your life, to self-leadership, growth, and freedom.” – Christopher Avery

51. “We live in a culture of blame. People will blame anyone or anything for their misery sooner than take the responsibility to own it and make it better.” – Dr. Henry Cloud

52. “To achieve life mastery and be worthy of a life well-lived, we must take action, ownership, and responsibility for our choices.” – Will Craig

53. “What is ‘the blame game,’ you ask? Well, simply put, it’s not accepting responsibility and blaming others for outcomes that you don’t care for in your life.” – Joseph E. McGuire

54. “We must govern our own lives, and when our thoughts and actions become destructive it is our responsibility to alter or abolish them and to institute new habits as the foundations for a freer, happier life.” – Brendon Burchard

55. “You may believe that you are responsible for what you do, but not for what you think. The truth is that you are responsible for what you think, because it is only at this level that you can exercise choice. What you do comes from what you think.” – Marianne Williamson

56. “Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege. People like you and me have an unbelievable amount of privilege and therefore, we have a huge amount of responsibility.” – Noam Chomsky

57. “Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.” – Ayn Rand

58. “We are the only ones responsible for what goes on in our lives. We can make excuses and blame others, but we are responsible to and for ourselves.” – Iyanla Vanzant

59. “Accepting complete responsibility for your life means that you refuse to make excuses or blame others for anything in your life that you’re not happy about.” –

60. “The Bible tells us that when we’re faithful in the little things that God gives us to do then He will bring increased blessings and responsibility into our lives.” – Bill Vincent

61. “Remember, you are responsible for your future, so take charge and turn your life into whatever it is that you want it to be.” – Sharlene Snow

62. “Now, when I feel I am not measuring up in life, I ask what it would take to make me feel good, and I do it. I take responsibility for my own emotional and spiritual work and allow others to do the same whatever way they choose.” – Patricia Heller

63. “You and I need to be the decision makers in our own lives and careers. It is also our responsibility to allow and to do the same.” – Jay Rifenbary

64. “Faith is no irresponsible shot in the dark. It is a responsible in God, who knows the desires of your hearts, the dreams you are given, and the goals you have set. He will guide your paths right.” – Robert Schuller

65. “The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same.” – Steve Maraboli

66. “A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case, he is justly accountable to them for the injury.” –

67. “Dare to take chances, follow your dreams, risk it all, fall in love, , ask questions, let go, make mistakes, start over, speak the truth, take responsibility, find happiness, live for today.” – Anonymous

68. “Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.” – G.K. Chesterton

69. “Responsibility is demonstrated by actions and deeds; not by words or information inserted in some glossy magazines or corporate websites.” – Samuel O Idowu

70. “Take responsibility, trust and have faith in yourself that you can offer the world something that no one has ever known.” – Paul Martens

71. “Skills can be taught and developed, but attitudes are difficult to change and ultimately are the responsibility of each person.” – Gary Schulz

72. “21 is the age of responsibility. Give it a few months and you will be wondering why you were in such a hurry to get here.” – Anonymous

73. “Fully accepting, loving, and being yourself allows you to be 100% authentic. This means being fully responsible for yourself.” – John Felitto

74. “If you are a Christian and happen to become wealthy, you have a biblical responsibility to be rich in good deeds, to be generous to others and to make sure that your hope is within Jesus Christ and not in your money.” – Matthew Paulson

75. “Character—the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life—is the source from which self-respect springs.” – Joan Didion

76. “And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” –

77. “You don’t have to worry about , if you’re building your own.” – Kerry Wagner

78. “Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then, you must take charge, you must take over. You are responsible.” – Camille Paglia

79. “Taking responsibility for yourself first, you can then take responsibility for who and what you are.” – Anonymous

80. “Start to reflect on your life after you accept, act, and take responsibility for your life.” – C. Payne

81. “By choosing to take responsibility for your life, you will immediately gain an increased power to achieve your greatest potential.” – Skip Downing

82. “If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.” – Richard Bach

83. “Happiness is your responsibility. If you depend or wait for other people to make you happy, you will always be disappointed.” – Byron Pulsifer

84. “Marriage is an exciting and eventful type of transition. Going from an independent individual to being responsible for someone else’s needs, wants, and wishes requires an enormous paradigm shift in thinking.” – Robert Mitchell

85. “Responsibility is a grace we give ourselves. It is not something imposed from outside of us. We have a say in how our life goes.” – Kristen Moeller

86. “I’ll be honest with you that I’ve come to find that in my own life, but I’ve tried to accept my responsibility to myself, and responsibility for myself, and to face up to my difficulties.” – Francis Brennan

87. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.” –

88. “In the old days, words like ‘sin’ and ‘Satan’ had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon—words like ‘dysfunction’ and ‘antisocial behavior,’ discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions.” – Don Henley

89. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.” –

90. “You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea—God bless! Keep a hunk of it, but part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.” – Elizabeth Warren

91. “Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.” – Tom Robbins

92. “The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.” – John Lennon

93. “Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must—at that moment—become the center of the universe.” – Elie Wiesel

94. “What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

95. “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

96. “Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man’s lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one’s self.” – Max Stirner

97. “Freedom without responsibility is like weight without gravity in physics—a logical impossibility.” – Robert C. Solomon

98. “Many of us do not consider the impact of our homes and offices on the environment—either positive or negative—but buildings are responsible for more than one-third of global energy use and in most countries are the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions.” – United Nations Environment Programme

99. “Until the great mass of people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.” –

100. “Some naysayers will claim the , the grass too green, the air too fresh or the water too clean. But, let’s face it, respect for the environment is everyone’s responsibility.” – Catherine DeVrye

101. “So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves but each other.” –

102. “The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain.” – John F. Kennedy

103. “A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.” – Bob Dylan

104. “The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, ‘I’ve got responsibilities.’” – Richard Bach

105. “In order to win and succeed in life, responsibility is so important. This is a part of being an adult and learning how to be responsible for everything.” – Tonya R. Owens

106. “The game is my life. It demands and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” – Michael Jordan

107. “Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.” – Napoleon Hill

108. “Accepting responsibility for your actions—winning. Always having an for your actions—losing.” – Catherine Pulsifer

109. “The ego’s responsibility is to ensure that for better or worse, our inner will shall be realized and fulfilled.” – Remi Meyer

110. “Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.” – Michael Korda

111. “We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” – George Bernand Shaw

112. “There is always an alternative to the present urgency—and it’s not a vacation, it’s acknowledging deeper responsibility.” – Stewart Brand

113. “No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

114. “There is only one basic human right—the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.” – P. J. O’Rourke

115. “You create everything that happens to you. If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life—that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.” – Jack Canfield

116. “Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.” –

117. “It is only when you take responsibility for your life that you discover how powerful you truly are.” – Allanah Hunt

118. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey

119. “Remember how far you’ve come, and you won’t have to rely on a destiny for your future. It will come on your own.” – Shannon A. Thompson

120. “A leader’s most important responsibility is identifying to forward progress and devising a coherent approach to overcoming them.” – Richard Rumelt

121. “If you will analyze those who cry ‘no opportunity’ you will find that they are using this as an alibi for their own unwillingness to assume responsibilities and use their minds.” – Andrew Carnegie

122. “The fundamental principle of coaching spirit is the belief that a person has great potential and as a coach, it is your responsibility to nourish that potential so they can achieve the combined goals.” – Brad Peterson

123. “It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.” – J.W. Goethe

124. “Mean what you say ‘cause no one will take the blame. Mean those words; the responsibility’s yours.” – Tsunami Bomb

125. “With great power there must also come great responsibility!” –

126. “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” – Theodore Roosevelt

127. “When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.” – George O’Neil

128. “Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.” – Orrin Woodward

129. “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” – Stanley Milgram

130. “While you may have many other responsibilities in life like your family, work, school or relationships, you should also and play.” – Christopher Michaels

131. “The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley

132. “The child who is secure in the love of the while learning to be responsible, will journey on to become the kind of adult for whom the parents would have wished.” – Darryl Cross

133. “Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.” – C. Everett Koop

134. “You have a great responsibility as a to love and nurture your child, to give your child everything it needs to grow strong and healthy—not just physically but also emotionally.” – Carol Rigby

135. “As a man, you need to be aware that marriage requires your involvement at every step of the way and that you cannot shy from responsibility.” – Barney Fraser

136. “Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.” –

137. “Responsibility is accepting that you are the cause and the solution of the matter.” – Anonymous

138. “Being responsible is an enormous privilege. It’s what marks anyone a fully grown human.” – Barack Obama

139. “Son, there are times a man has to do things he doesn’t like to, in order to protect his family.” – Ralph Moody

140. “The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.” – Lou Holtz

141. “Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.” – General Colin Powell

142. “The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” – Doug Larson

143. “In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.” –

144. “We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, any time, in a blink of an eye.” – Carlos Castaneda

145. “Look at the word responsibility—‘response-ability’—the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.” – Steven Covey

146. “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Jr.

147. “Accepting responsibility should be your default response to everything.” – Pia Silva

148. “If an assumption of responsibility is made in ethics, it is assumed as a metaphysical theory and is thus open to the objections that can be made to any metaphysical statement.” – Moira Roberts

149. “You can’t change someone who doesn’t see an issue in their actions.” – Anonymous

150. “99% of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.” – Carver

151. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.” – Wayne Dyer

152. “When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” – Louis Nizer

153. “When you think everything is someone’s fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.” –

154. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.” – Eckhart Tolle

155. “Part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for what you did wrong in the first place.” – Jack Bauer

156. “Stop pointing fingers and placing blame on others. Your life can only change to the degree that you accept responsibility for it.” – Steve Maraboli

157. “By taking responsibility for yourself, you can stop relying on others to take responsibility for you.” – Vironika Tugaleva

158. “It’s always seemed to me that flirtation is a man’s device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won’t be taken seriously.” – G.G. Vandagriff

159. “If you wish to abrogate all responsibility for your moral and intellectual independence, then by all means, conform with the herd and obey blindly.” – Graeme Rodaughan

160. “Between stimulus and response, there is space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In and our freedom.” – Viktor E. Frankl

161. “The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” –

162. “A lot of responsibility is learned over time and comes with experience. The best we can do is try our hardest and be self-aware.” – Macy How

163. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.” – Henry Ward Beecher

164. “The victim dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.” – Steve Maraboli

165. “One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals can choose the way they think.” – Martin Seligman

166. “There are two primary choices in life—to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” – Denis Waitley

167. “Every right has its responsibilities. Like the right itself, these responsibilities stem from no man-made law, but from the very nature of man and society. The security, progress and welfare of one group is measured finally in the security, progress and welfare of all mankind.” – Lewis Schwellenbach

168. “If you own this story you get to write the ending.” – Brene Brown

169. “Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.” – Edwin H. Stuart

170. “Take responsibility—it’s where your powers live.” – Will Craig

171. “The moment you take responsibility for everything in your life is the moment you can change anything in your life.” – Hal Elrod

172. “The greatest people are ‘great’ because they’re willing to admit their greatest faults.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

173. “It is a painful thing to look at your own troubles and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.” – Sophocles

174. “Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.” – Sharon Salzberg

175. “It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.” – Moliere

176. “Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies.” – Heather Schuck

177. “Personal responsibility leads to national transformation.” – Sunday Adelaja

178. “When you start to accept responsibility for the results you get in life, you also take back the power to change your future outcome.” – Kevin Ngo

179. “Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.” – Dr. Frank Crane

180. “You are never responsible for the actions of others; you are only responsible for you.” – Miguel Ruiz

181. “The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

182. “Take responsibility for your own happiness, do not expect people or things to bring you happiness, or you could be disappointed.” – Rodolfo Costa

183. “Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?” – Scott Stabile

184. “Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.” – Brian Tracy

185. “The natural human response is to react but to take complete ownership and self-discipline. The more you have that, the happier you’d be.” – Jeremiah Say

186. “A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.” – Shusaku Endo

187. “Our life is not a result of our environment or upbringing, but a result of our choices. We have the ability to determine the kind of life we want to live and the type of person we wish to be.” – Cameron C. Taylor

188. “The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.” – Vera Nazarian

189. “Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.” – Garth Stein

190. “The real freedom of any individual can always be measured by the amount of responsibility which he must assume for his own welfare and security.” – Robert Welch

191. “Why did the Lord give us so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?” –

192. “In your area of responsibility, if you do not control events, you are at the mercy of events.” – Harland Svare

193. “Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.” – Malcolm Forbes

194. “No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.” – Anonymous

195. “I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.” – John D. Rockefeller

196. “Never mind your happiness; do your duty.” – Will Durant

197. “You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln

198. “To let oneself be bound by a duty from the moment you see it approaching is part of the integrity that alone justifies responsibility.” – Dag Hammarskjšld

199. “I feel the responsibility of the occasion. Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.” –

200. “Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.” – Sri Chinmoy

201. “A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.” – Charles Caleb Colton

202. “We are not put here on earth to play around. There is work to be done. There are responsibilities to be met. Humanity needs the abilities of every man and woman.” – Alden Palmer

203. “It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.” – Sir Josiah Stamp

204. “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

205. “I’m not perfect; all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow.” – Lana

206. “Successful people have a social responsibility to make the world a better place and not just take from it.” – Carrie Underwood

207. “We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires. Through honest self-work, reflection, and meditation, we begin to string more of these moments together, creating a web-like design of happiness that drapes around our lives.” – Tara Stiles

208. “We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.” – Loretta Lynch

209. “Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.” – James Cromwell

210. “Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power.” – Seth Berkley

211. “Everybody is responsible for their own actions. It’s easy to point the finger at somebody else, but a real man, a real woman, a real person knows when it’s time to take the blame and when to take responsibility for their own actions.” – Marcus Smart

212. “Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.” –

213. “Find joy in everything you choose to do—every job, relationship, home. It’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.” –

214. “I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society.” – Anthony Fauci

215. “Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.” – Ban Ki-moon

216. “If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.” – Mitch Albom

217. “When you accept a , you take on extra responsibility for your actions toward others.” – Kelley Armstrong

218. “I am sorry my decisions do not meet with your approval, but nevertheless, they are mine, and the consequences are also mine.” – Rachel Caine