RESPONSIBILITY

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
Walter Anderson

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.
Maya Angelou

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.
Josiah Gilbert Holland

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.
R. C. Allen

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Accountability breeds response-ability.
Stephen R. Covey

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

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.
Louise L. Hay

In dreams begin responsibility.
William Butler Yeats

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
John Enoch Powell

Bear one another's burdens.
Bible

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.
Joy Baluch

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.
Aristotle

Good men prefer to be accountable.
Michael Edwardes

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''
Richard Bach

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.
Arnold Toynbee

Nobody can do it for you.
Ralph Cordiner

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.
Source Unknown

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Stanislaw J. Lec

Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.
Source Unknown

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it
Joe Simmons

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.
Albert Schweitzer

"No snowflake in an avalanch ever feels responsible."
Voltaire -

Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.
Madame Guizot

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga

Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.
Source Unknown

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.
Rose Wilder Lane

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.
Mahatma Gandhi

One must care about a world one will not see.
Bertrand Russell

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]
Bible

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.
Source Unknown

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.
August Heckscher

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
O. J. Simpson

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.
Jean-Paul Sartre

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
Thomas Carlyle

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.
Ralph Waldo Trine

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
Viktor E. Frankl

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.
Henry C. Link

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.
Les Brown

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.
Gerald W. Johnson

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.
Darius Ogden Mills

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Billie Jean King

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.
Jan Carlzon

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.
Stuart Briscoe

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

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.
Cyril James

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Napoleon Hill

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.
Woodrow T. Wilson

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.
Mildred Newman