Quotes and Sayings on Responsibility

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.
Tom Robbins

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Josiah Charles Stamp

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Erica Jong

Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Thomas Jefferson

Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
Louis Armstrong

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.
William Penn

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

A true gentleman makes demands upon himself but not upon others.
Confucius

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.
Confucius

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
Lao-Tzu