RESPONSIBILITY QUOTES
quotations about responsibility
The Buck Stops Here.
HARRY S. TRUMAN
motto on his White House desk
Responsibility is accepting that you are the cause & the solution of the matter.
ANONYMOUS
Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.
AYN RAND
The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
We're gonna end your party
With some responsibility
TWISTED SISTER
"I'll Never Grow Up, Now!"
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work.
ADRIENNE RICH
"Claiming an Education"
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Wind's Twelve Quarters
Accepting responsibility should be your default response to everything.
PIA SILVA
"Are You Disciplined Enough To Charge Premium Prices?", Forbes, November 15, 2017
Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
To say you have no choice is to relieve yourself of responsibility.
PATRICK NESS
Monsters of Men
Mean what you say cuz no one will take the blame
Mean those words; the responsibility's yours
TSUNAMI BOMB
"Say It If You Mean It"
Don't wanna spend my life saving up for things
I don't wanna have what a steady job brings
I don't want security
Don't want responsibility
I don't wanna stay at home not making any noise
I always got to be out
I always got to have a choice
I don't want security
Don't want responsibility
Youth youth youth
GENERATION X
"Youth Youth Youth"
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
SIGMUND FREUD
Civilization and Its Discontents
Being responsible is an enormous privilege.... It's what marks anyone a fully grown human.
BARACK OBAMA
"Barack Obama reveals 3 pieces of leadership advice he's shared with his daughters", CNBC, September 21, 2017
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.
P. J. O'ROURKE
The Liberty Manifesto
The best way to avoid responsibility is to say, "I've got responsibilities."
RICHARD BACH
Illusions
You create everything that happens to you.... If you want to be really successful, and I know you do, then you will have to give up blaming and complaining and take total responsibility for your life--that means all your results, both your successes and your failures. That is the prerequisite for creating a life of success. It is only by acknowledging that you have created everything up until now that you can take charge of creating the future you want.
JACK CANFIELD
The Success Principles
If an assumption of responsibility is made in ethics, it is assumed as a metaphysical theory and is thus open to the objections that can be made to any metaphysical statement.
MOIRA ROBERTS
Responsibility and Practical Freedom
With great power there must also come ... great responsibility!
STAN LEE
Amazing Fantasy, #15, August 1962
Character -- the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life -- is the source from which self-respect springs.
JOAN DIDION
On Self-Respect
You didn't realize
That the time would come
For you to take responsibility for your actions
You were the one who acted so wise
You were the one who dared me to cross the line
Your choice
You pay the price
SICK OF IT ALL
"Pay the Price"