"Responsibility is the ability to respond."
Read quote
19 likes
Responsibility quotes
Responsibility
5.3K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Responsibility
Browse quotes that often appear alongside responsibility — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Responsibility quotes (page 14 of 266)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential."
Read quote
18 likes
"I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
Read quote
18 likes
"We must exchange the philosophy of excuse - what I am is beyond my control for the philosophy of responsibility."
Read quote
18 likes
"Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance."
Read quote
18 likes
"Put no faith in salvation through the political order."
Read quote
18 likes
"Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual."
Read quote
18 likes
"Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want."
Read quote
18 likes
"My responsibility to myself, my neighbors, my family and the human family is to try to tell the truth."
Read quote
18 likes
"A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it."
Read quote
18 likes
"Take responsibility for your finances or get used to taking orders for the rest of your life. You're either a master of money or a slave to it. Your choice."
Read quote
18 likes
"We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them."
Read quote
18 likes
"Moral responsibility is what is lacking in a man when he demands it of a woman."
Read quote
18 likes
"A fish is free as long as it stays in the water. If it suddenly declares that it wants its freedom to fly in the air like a bird, disaster occurs. A train is free as long as it stays on the track. However, if it demands freedom to take off down a major highway, the result is destruction and devastation. We too can only experience true freedom in its fullest if we remain within the framework of freedom. Often this requires accepting responsibility and practicing discipline."
Read quote
18 likes
"Any one who speaks in favor of bringing the Arab refugees back must also say how he expects to take the responsibility for it, if he is interested in the state of Israel. It is better that things are stated clearly and plainly: We shall not let this happen."
Read quote
18 likes
"Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases."
Read quote
18 likes
"Your paycheck is not your employer's responsibility, it's your responsibility. Your employer has no control over your value, but you do."
Read quote
18 likes
"The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too hard."
Read quote
18 likes
"We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility."
Read quote
17 likes
"To win over your bad self is the grandest and foremost of victories."
Read quote
17 likes