Responsibility Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old responsibility quotes, responsibility sayings, and responsibility proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity. Nadine Gordimer
A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions. Ralph Waldo Trine
Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else. Les Brown
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself. Alexander Graham Bell
Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success. Les Brown
It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable. Moliere
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. Sophocles
A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make. Denis Waitley
Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you. Brian Tracy
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself. William Penn
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. Napoleon Hill
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. Epictetus
Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress. I Ching
Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life. Orrin Woodward
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility. Patrick Ness
People think responsibility is hard to bear. It's not. I think that sometimes it is the absence of responsibility that is harder to bear. You have a great feeling of importance. Henry Kissinger
I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do something I can do. Helen Keller
No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility. Gerald W Johnson
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. Thomas Jefferson
To decide to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life. Arbie M. Dale
Stand up and be responsible for yourself...Be aware of your mind and take responsibility for yourself. Suzuki Shosan
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible but also for what we do not do. Jean Baptiste Moliere
If each one sweeps before his own door, the whole street is clean. Yiddish Saying
I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. John D. Rockefeler
None of us are responsible for our birth. Our responsibility is the use we make of life. Joshua Henry Jones
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny. Paul Tillich
If there is any appalling, spiritually murderous sensation on earth, it is a knowledge that on a certain date or at a given time and place you have got to be somewhere doing some set, prescribed, definite thing. Christopher Morley
Our definitions of 'responsibility' have always placed a heavy emphasis on self-control but 'response-ability' means responsivity or it means nothing at all. Philip Slater
You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself Joan Sutherland
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. Erica Jong