Top 200 Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you’re never wrong? If you don’t admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you’re bound to make the same one again.”

— Pat Summitt

52. “Leave it better than you found it.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

53. “No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

— Charles Dickens

54. “Leadership is not a license to do less. Leadership is a responsibility to do more.”

— Simon Sinek

55. “We are our choices.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

56. “Service to others leads to greatness.”

— Jim Rohn

57. “Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.”

— Abdul Kalam

58. “When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don’t get to decide that you didn’t.”

— Louis C.K.

59. “Work with integrity and succeed with integrity.”

— Abdul Kalam

60. “Never spend your money before you have earned it.”

— Thomas Jefferson

61. “Ultimately the greatest help is self-help.”

— Bruce Lee

62. “The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They’re full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.”

— Norman Vincent Peale

63. “A budget is telling your money where to go instead of wondering where it went.”

— Dave Ramsey

64. “You are not a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes.”

— John Wooden

65. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. ”

— Jim Rohn

66. “The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

— Albert Schweitzer

67. “The thoughts you think today determine the results you’ll see tomorrow.”

— Robin S. Sharma

68. “Leadership is neither a rank nor a title. It is a choice. The choice to provide care and protection for those for whom we are responsible.”

— Simon Sinek

69. “Your family is depending on you. There’s no better reason to bring your A-game all the time.”

— Grant Cardone

70. “If anyone is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault. Nothing else is the cause of anxiety or loss of tranquility except our own opinion.”

— Epictetus

71. “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

72. “Excuses sound best to the person that’s making ’em up!”

— Tyrese Gibson

73. “To stand up straight with your shoulders back is to accept the terrible responsibility of life, with eyes wide open. It means deciding to voluntarily transform the chaos of potential into the realities of habitable order.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

74. “Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.”

— Brian Tracy

75. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

76. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”

— Ronald Reagan

77. “To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.”

— Confucius

78. “Never make excuses. Your friends don't need them and your foes won't believe them.”

— John Wooden

79. “You can’t hire someone else to do your push-ups for you.”

— Jim Rohn

80. “In the morning when thou risest unwillingly, let this thought be present – I am rising to the work of a human being. Why then am I dissatisfied if I am going to do the things for which I exist and for which I was brought into the world?”

— Marcus Aurelius

81. “Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

82. “Accountability breeds response-ability.”

— Stephen R. Covey

83. “Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.”

— Dale Carnegie

84. “Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.”

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Eleanor Roosevelt

86. “You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.”

— Brian Tracy

87. “If you can’t feed a hundred people, feed just one.”

— Mother Teresa

88. “Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will.”

— Jack Welch

89. “We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.”

— Joyce Meyer

90. “Making excuses burns zero calories per hour.”

— Anonymous

91. “Work is doing it. Discipline is doing it every day. Diligence is doing it well every day.”

— Dave Ramsey

92. “Doing the right thing isn’t always easy – in fact, sometimes it’s real hard – but just remember that doing the right thing is always right.”

— David Cottrell

93. “If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.”

— Zig Ziglar

94. “If you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”

— John C. Maxwell

95. “Life is not fair, it never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. Do not fall into the trap of feeling like you’re a victim. You are not.”

— Matthew McConaughey

96. “The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— Grant Cardone

98. “Bringing people together is what i call ‘ubuntu,’ which means ‘I am because we are.’ Far too often people think of themselves as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity.”

— Desmond Tutu

99. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”

— Max De Pree

100. “If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”

— Les Brown