Top 200 Responsibility Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “A strong man cannot help a weaker unless the weaker is willing to be helped, and even then the weak man must become strong of himself; he must, by his own efforts, develop the strength which he admires in another. None but himself can alter his condition.”

— James Allen

152. “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

153. “Don’t start the day until you have it finished. Don’t start the week until you have it finished. Don’t start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.”

— Jim Rohn

154. “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

155. “You’re going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don’t do. You don’t get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you’re going to take. That’s it.”

— Jordan B. Peterson

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

— Simon Sinek

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

— Epictetus

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

— Margaret Thatcher

159. “There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

160. “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

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

— Ayn Rand

162. “Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.”

— Mwai Kibaki

163. “I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.”

— Abraham Lincoln

164. “If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.”

— John C. Maxwell

165. “I am in charge. I take my own power back.”

— Louise Hay

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

— Alan Cohen

167. “Life isn’t happening to you; life is responding to you.”

— Rhonda Byrne

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

— Brian Tracy

169. “Whatever your life’s work is, do it well.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

170. “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

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

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

172. “I want the world to be better because I was here.”

— Will Smith

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

— James Cash Penney

174. “You are the only person who can make this work, and you are the only person who can mess this up.”

— Andrew Tate

175. “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

176. “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

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

— Ronald Reagan

178. “Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone’s responsibility.”

— Ban Ki-Moon

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

— Jean-Paul Sartre

180. “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

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

— Jim Rohn

182. “You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.”

— Stephen R. Covey

183. “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

184. “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

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

— Donald Trump

186. “Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”

— Brian Tracy

187. “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

188. “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

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

— Andy Kennedy

190. “I always wondered why somebody doesn’t do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.”

— Lily Tomlin

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

192. “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.”

— Tony Robbins

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

— Ryan Blair

194. “There is a choice you have to make in everything you do. So keep in mind that in the end, the choice you make, makes you.”

— John Wooden

195. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

196. “Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation.”

— Nelson Mandela

197. “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

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

— Bill Parcells

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

— Jim Rohn

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

— Robin S. Sharma