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Inspirational Quotes About Responsibility

Whether they were heroes, poets, scholars, or leaders, the brightest minds in human history have thought and written about values and their meanings. Use the search field on the left to search our quotation database by author, value, or specific word contained in the quote.

The following quotes have been tagged with Responsibility


“It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.”
Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molière
(1622-1673); Playwright

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“Responsibility finds a way. Irresponsibilty makes excuses!”
Gene Bedley
Author, Educator

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“The price of greatness is responsibility.”
Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner

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“A man who lacks reliability is utterly useless.”
Confucius 
(551-479); Philosopher

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“Our children need our presence, not our presents.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929-1968); Minister, Civil Rights Activist

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“You can pretend to care, but you can't pretend to show up. ”
George L. Bell
(1927-2007); Civic Leader; Father Of Eight

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“We need to empower our people so they can take more responsibility for their own lives in a world that is ever smaller, where everyone counts...We need a new spirit of community, a sense that we are all in this together...”
Bill Clinton
(born 1946); 42nd U.S. President

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“Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.”
Midori Koto

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“The greatest ability is dependability.”
Robert "Bob""" Jones
(1883-1968); American Evangelist

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“Parents can only give good advice or put [their children] on the right path, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.”
Anne Frank
(1929-1945); Diarist

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“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Jane Howard

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“Ability is a wonderful thing, but its value is greatly enhanced by dependability. Ability implies repeatability and accountability. ”
Robert A. Heinlein
(1907-1988); Novelist, Short Story Author, Essayist, Screenwriter

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“We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control - for the philosophy of responsibility.”
Barbara Charline Jordan
(1936-1996); U.S. Member Of Congress

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“With great power comes great responsibility.”
Stanley Martin Lieber
(born 1922); Quote From Spiderman Movie (2002)

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“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950); Playwright, Nobel Prize Winner

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“When we no longer hold people responsible for their choices, civility and common sense will be diminished.”
Robert A. Levy

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“I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. ”
Helen Keller
(1880-1968); Author, Lecturer, Activist

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“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it's remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.”
P.J. O'Rourke
(born 1947); Us Journalist

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“To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.”
Abbie M. Dale

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