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

Accountability breeds response ability.- Stephen Covey

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

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.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than raising of the next generation.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

There are no innocent bystanders ... what are they doing there in the first place

I feel the responsibility of the occasion. Responsibility is proportionate to opportunity.

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

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

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

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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

All my life they had made choices for me and I had resented it. Now the choice was mine and once it was made I would have no right to blame anyone else for the consequences. Loss of that privilege to blame others unexpectedly stung.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasnt the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

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

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.

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.

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

The great thought, the great concern, the great anxiety of men is to restrict, as much as possible, the limits of their own responsibility.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I am only one, But still I am one.I cannot do everything,But still I can do something;And because I cannot do everythingI will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Why did the Lord give use so much quickness unless it was to avoid responsibility?

Them as can do has to do for them as cant. And someone has to speak up for them as has no voices.

One must care about a world one will not see.

We create the world in which we live; if that world becomes unfit for human life; it is because we tire of our responsibility.

In dreams begin responsibility.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

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

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know.

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

Its time to care its time to take responsibility its time to lead its time for a change its time to be true to our greatest self its time to stop blaming others.

Everyones worried about stopping terrorism. Well theres really an easy way Stop participating in it.

What is an anarchist One who choosing accepts the responsibility of choice.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Not responding is a responsewe are equally responsible for what we dont do. In the case of animal slaughter to throw your hands in the air is to wrap your fingers around a knife handle.

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

Each is responsible for his own actions.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

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.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

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

Im not much but Im all I have.

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.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with a man is what he makes of himself.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Responsibility is the possibility of opportunity culminating in inevitable fulfillment.

Choice of attention to pay attention to this and ignore that is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isnt just part of our civic responsibility. To me its an enlargement of the experience of being alive just the way literature or art or music is.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well being and well doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Eventually we all have to accept full and total responsibility for our actions everything we have done and have not done.

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most fa reaching consequence of submission to authority.

If we are worried about the future then we must look today at the upbringing of children.

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

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

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Nobody can do it for you.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

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

Responsibility educates.

The ultimate priority of humanity should not be to savour the power given to us, but rather to account for the according responsibility.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions.... Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.

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

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.