Responsibility Quotes

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.

If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.

When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.

I have a primary responsibility to myself; to make myself into the best person I can possibly be. Then and only then, will I have something worthwhile to share.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Our responsibility is no longer to acquire, but to BE.

The government, whether state or central, is elected. That means we have a responsibility to elect the right kind of leaders.

Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone.