Top 200 Responsibility Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Accountability Quotes

2. “Whatever happens, take responsibility.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Effort Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

3. “Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Choices Quotes, Quality Quotes

4. “Never leave till tomorrow that which you can do today.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Business Quotes, Goal Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes

5. “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Fighting Quotes

6. “The price of greatness is responsibility.”

— Winston Churchill

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Impact Quotes, Quality Quotes, Greatness Quotes

7. “When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation, or accept it. All else is madness.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Personal Development Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

8. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Change Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Peace Quotes

10. “Every word has consequences. Every silence, too.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Philosophy Quotes, Silence Quotes

11. “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Make A Difference Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Taking Action Quotes

12. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Impact Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

13. “Be active! Take on responsibility! Work for the things you believe in. If you do not, you are surrendering your fate to others.”

— Abdul Kalam

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Choices Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Achievement Quotes

14. “You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Mind Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

15. “If you’re in the luckiest 1 percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent.”

— Warren Buffett

Also featured in: Helping Others Quotes, Quotes About Giving

16. “A good leader is a person who takes a little more than his share of the blame and a little less than his share of the credit.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Famous Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

17. “Extreme Ownership. Leaders must own everything in their world. There is no one else to blame.”

— Jocko Willink

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Military Quotes

18. “The purpose of life is finding the largest burden that you can bear and bearing it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

Also featured in: Life is Hard Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Being Strong Quotes, Suffering Quotes

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

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Transformation Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Choices Quotes

20. “The only person who is truly holding you back is you. No more excuses. It’s time to change. It’s time to live life at a new level.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Coaching Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Performance Quotes

21. “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”

— Elie Wiesel

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Fighting Quotes, Philosophy Quotes, Freedom Quotes

22. “He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Morality Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Justice Quotes

23. “It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one’s acts.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Duty Quotes

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

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Goal Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Empowering Quotes

25. “Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Expectations Quotes, Duty Quotes, Reputation Quotes

26. “In life our first job is this, to divide and distinguish things into two categories: externals I cannot control, but the choices I make with regard to them I do control. Where will I find good and bad? In me, in my choices.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Epic Quotes

27. “In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Decision-Making Quotes, Path Quotes

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Positive Motivational Quotes, Values Quotes

29. “Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Also featured in: Human Nature Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Existentialism Quotes, Quotes on Liberty

30. “Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Legacy Quotes, Quotes About Humanity, Duty Quotes

31. “Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Conscience Quotes, Guilt Quotes

32. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

— Leo Tolstoy

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Character Quotes

33. “They alone live, who live for others.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Positive Inspirational Quotes, Service Quotes, Sunday Inspirational Quotes, Philosophical Quotes

34. “Whatever you feel, you become. It is your responsibility.”

— Osho

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Personality Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes

35. “A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Values Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Choices Quotes, Graduation Quotes

36. “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

— Mark Twain

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Graduation Quotes

37. “Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”

— Simon Sinek

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Empathy Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

38. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Important Quotes

39. “When you do nothing you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Action Quotes, Impact Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

40. “Quality is everyone’s responsibility.”

— W. Edwards Deming

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Quotes About Work

41. “Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes, Self-Empowerment Quotes

42. “Work hard at work worth doing.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Work, Motivational Work Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work

43. “We know only too well that what we are doing is nothing more than a drop in the ocean. But if the drop were not there, the ocean would be missing something.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Meaningful Quotes, Short Inspirational Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

44. “You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”

— Ayn Rand

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Quotes About Reality

45. “You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Also featured in: Inspirational Entrepreneurship Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes

46. “Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.”

— Pat Summitt

Also featured in: Accountability Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes, Sports Quotes, Duty Quotes

47. “When you were made a leader you weren’t given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others.”

— Jack Welch

Also featured in: Leadership Quotes, Business Quotes, Inspirational Business Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes, Engagement Quotes

48. “Do the right thing because it is right.”

— Immanuel Kant

Also featured in: Integrity Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Powerful Quotes, Quotes for Better Decisions, Character Quotes

49. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

— Anne Frank

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Helping Others Quotes

50. “The simple act of caring is heroic.”

— Edward Albert

Also featured in: Sweet Quotes, Helping Others Quotes, Caring Quotes, Character Quotes