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

•“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

•“If you build the guts to do something, anything, then you better save enough to face the consequences.” 
― Criss Jami

•“A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.” 
― Dag Hammarskjold 

•“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.” 
― Alan Wilson Watts

•“Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.” 

•“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

•“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.” 
― Vaclav Havel 

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

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

•“The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”  

•“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

•“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for "finding himself." If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.” 
― Thomas Merton 

•“We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.” 
― Sean Covey

•“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says "I was beaten," he does not say "My men were beaten.” 
― Antoine de Saint-Exupery 

•“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

•“In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes.” 
― Theodor Adorno 

•“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.

•“I hope that you will learn to take responsibility for your decisions. don't take counsel of your fears.” 
― Thomas S. Monson 

•“There are only two kinds of men in this world: Honest men and dishonest men. ...Any man who says the world owes him a living is dishonest. The same God that made you and me made this earth. And He planned it so that it would yield every single thing that the people on it need. But He was careful to plan it so that it would only yield up its wealth in exchange for the labor of man. Any man who tries to share in that wealth without contributing the work of his brain or his hands is dishonest.” 
― Ralph Moody

•“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” 
― Abraham Lincoln 

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

•“Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.” 
― Barbara Grizzuti Harrison 

•“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

•“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” 
― Eleanor Roosevelt 

•“If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.” 
― Danny Wallace

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

•“Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.” 

•“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” 
― Michael Jordan

•“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

•“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.” 

•“Obedience is detachment from the self. This is the most radical detachment of all. But what is the self? The self is the principle of reason and responsibility in us. It is the root of freedom, it is what makes us men.” 
― Bede Griffiths 

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

•“I believe life is a series of near misses. A lot of what we ascribe to luck is not luck at all. It's seizing the day and accepting responsibility for your future. It's seeing what other people don't see And pursuing that vision.” 
― Howard Schultz 

•“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

•“Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.” 
― James Cash Penney 

•“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp pf action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.” 
― General Charles DeGaule

•“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will - his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.” 
― Albert Schweitzer 

•“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything” 
― Albert Einstein

•“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.” 
― John C. Maxwell 

•“I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me.” 
― Oprah Winfrey 

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

•“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.” 
― M. Scott Peck 

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

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

•“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.” 
― Kurt Vonnegut

•“The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace.” 
― Michael Jordan

•“When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.” 
― Roger Crawford

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

•“It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.” 
― Mahatma Gandhi

•“You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose - or you can decide now to choose them.” 

•“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.” 
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau

•“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.” 
― Megan Whalen Turner

•“Dignity does not come from avenging insults, especially from violence that can never be justified. It comes from taking responsibility and advancing our common humanity.” 
― Hillary Clinton 

•“you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own” 
― Kerry E. Wagner

•“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.” 
― Brian Tracy 

•“Character ” the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.” 
― Joan Didion

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

•“Responsibility:  A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor.  In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.” 

•“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

•“If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.” 

•“If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.” 
― Steve Maraboli