Responsibility Quotes and Sayings

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
 ~Abigail Van Buren

"I must do something" always solves more problems than "Something must be done."
 ~Author Unknown

If you mess up, 'fess up.
 ~Author Unknown

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
 ~Joan Didion

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

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.
 ~Bill Maher

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
 ~Albert Ellis

You are not responsible for the programming you picked up in childhood. However, as an adult, you are one hundred percent responsible for fixing it.
 ~Ken Keyes, Jr.

Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
 ~Booker T. Washington

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
~Sidney J. Harris

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

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

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ~George Bernard Shaw