Top 200 Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

102. “Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but the sum of his actions, nothing else but what his life is.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

103. “Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.”

— Confucius

104. “Don’t be a VICTIM of negative self talk – remember YOU are listening.”

— Bob Proctor

105. “Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.”

— Louise Hay

106. “Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

107. “Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.”

— Gary Vaynerchuk

108. “Never be so busy as not to think of others.”

— Mother Teresa

109. “True grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”

— John Wayne

110. “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

111. “You always reap what you sow; there is no shortcut.”

— Stephen R. Covey

112. “Since you alone are responsible for your thoughts, only you can change them.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

113. “Only you can control your future.”

— Dr. Seuss

114. “He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.”

— Benjamin Franklin

115. “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

116. “Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

117. “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

118. “Decisions determine destiny.”

— Thomas S. Monson

119. “Try to leave this world a little better than you found it and, when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate you have not wasted your time but have done your best.”

— Robert Baden-Powell

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

121. “Be a victor, not a victim.”

— Joel Osteen

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

— Dalai Lama XIV

123. “What good shall I do this day?”

— Benjamin Franklin

124. “Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.”

— Lou Holtz

125. “Life is what you make it. Always has been, always will be.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Albert Camus

127. “I wasn't lucky, I deserved it.”

— Margaret Thatcher

128. “The choices you make today design your future.”

— Deepak Chopra

129. “The reason you’ll never be successful is that you procrastinate.”

— Eric Thomas

130. “The thinking person must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another.”

— Albert Schweitzer

131. “Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.”

— Confucius

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

— Steven Furtick

133. “If I really want to improve my situation, I can work on the one thing over which I have control – myself.”

— Stephen R. Covey

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

135. “Implementing Extreme Ownership requires checking your ego and operating with a high degree of humility. Admitting mistakes, taking ownership, and developing a plan to overcome challenges are integral to any successful team.”

— Jocko Willink

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

— Douglas Adams

137. “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

138. “I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”

— Maya Angelou

139. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”

— John Lewis

140. “What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.”

— Gretchen Rubin

141. “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

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

— Ashleigh Brilliant

143. “Leadership is taking responsibility while others are making excuses.”

— John C. Maxwell

144. “Do what you say you will do.”

— James M. Kouzes

145. “Treat yourself like you would someone you’re responsible for helping.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

146. “Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”

— Joyce Meyer

147. “Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.”

— Thomas Jefferson

148. “The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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

— Ayn Rand

150. “Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.”

— Oprah Winfrey