Quotes about Responsibility

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

There is luxury in self reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

We have the wolf by the ears, and we can neither hold him, nor safely let him go. Justice is in one scale, and self-preservation in the other.

In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.

I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn, is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Never promise more than you can perform.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.