Responsibility Quotes
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility . . . . In the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.”
— Michael Korda
Editor-in-Cheif, Simon & Schuster
“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
— Winston Churchill
“The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.”
— Lou Holtz
“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
— General Colin Powell
“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself.”
— Jim Rohn
“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.”
— Doug Larson
“In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions..”
— Don Henley
Singer/Songwriter
“Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses.”
— George Washington Carver
“All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you.”
— Wayne Dyer
“In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
— Abraham Lincoln
December 1, 1862 Message to Congress
“It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.”
— J. W. Goethe
