Top 40 Responsibility Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Denis Waitley

2. “Follow the three R’s: – Respect for self. – Respect for others. – Responsibility for all your actions.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Buddhist Quotes

3. “The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Choices Quotes

4. “Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility.”

— Grant Cardone

5. “We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.”

— Tom Hiddleston

Also featured in: Hero Quotes

6. “It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Also featured in: Quotes About People

7. “Only you can control your future.”

— Dr. Seuss

8. “The past is past, and the future is yet to come. That means the future is in your hands – the future entirely depends on the present. That realization gives you a great responsibility.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Philosophical Quotes

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Freedom Quotes

10. “The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Commitment Quotes

11. “An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.”

— Albert Camus

12. “Obedience is your responsibility, the outcome is God’s!”

— Steven Furtick

13. “And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

— Kurt Vonnegut

14. “You can’t dodge your responsibilities by saying they don’t exist!”

— Douglas Adams

15. “Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness – all karma is burned.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Karma Quotes

16. “Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.”

— Ashleigh Brilliant

Also featured in: Fate Quotes

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

— Ayn Rand

18. “Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.”

— John F. Kennedy

Also featured in: Past Quotes, 4th Of July Quotes

19. “The pollution of the planet is only an outward reflection of an inner psychic pollution: millions of unconscious individuals not taking responsibility for their inner space.”

— Eckhart Tolle

20. “Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.”

— Epictetus

21. “Give someone responsibility and they will do their best. Make them accountable and they will do even better.”

— Simon Sinek

22. “It’s not my responsibility to be beautiful. I’m not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.”

— Warsan Shire

Also featured in: Purpose Quotes

23. “The evasion of responsibility is the major cause of most peoples frustrations and defeats.”

— Ayn Rand

24. “It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.”

— Alan Cohen

25. “Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.”

— Brian Tracy

26. “Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don’t have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.”

— Amelia Earhart

27. “Quit thy childhood, my friend, and wake up!”

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Also featured in: Quotes About Childhood

28. “Responsibilities are given to him on whom trust rests. Responsibility is always a sign of trust.”

— James Cash Penney

Also featured in: Quotes About Trust

29. “We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Hero Quotes

30. “There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility.”

— John F. Kennedy

31. “With freedom comes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual.”

— Ronald Reagan

32. “Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

33. “You have to take seriously the notion that understanding the universe is your responsibility, because the only understanding of the universe that will be useful to you is your own understanding.”

— Terence McKenna

34. “Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Sacrifice Quotes, Greatness Quotes

35. “You know I’m old in some ways-in others-well, I’m just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

36. “If you feel a sense of social responsibility, first of all keep working on yourself. Being peaceful yourself is the first step if you want to live in a peaceful universe.”

— Ram Dass

37. “Leaders, true leaders, take responsibility for the success of the team and understand that they must also take responsibility for the failure.”

— Donald Trump

38. “The denial of the right of ownership to a man is a denial of his basic freedom: freedom without property is always incomplete. To be “secured” – but with no accompanying responsibility – is to be the slave of whatever group provides the security.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

39. “Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.”

— Elie Wiesel

40. “Companies are increasingly taking responsibility for the safety of the food they sell, rather than risk their brand on a large recall.”

— Andy Kennedy

41. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Change Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes, Vision Quotes

42. “If it is important to you, you will find a way. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

— Ryan Blair

Also featured in: Motivational Quotes, Motivational Bodybuilding Quotes, Achievement Quotes, Determination Quotes

43. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Running Quotes, Moving On Quotes

44. “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

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Spirituality Quotes, Quotes About Growing Up

45. “If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.”

— Bill Parcells

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Teamwork Quotes

46. “Either you run the day or the day runs you.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Running Quotes, Productivity Quotes

47. “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Self-Improvement Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes