Quotes about Responsibility
In times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.
— Abraham Lincoln
The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.
— Lou Holtz
I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
— John Donne
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.
— Napoleon Hill
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
— Publilius Syrus
Better a broken promise than none at all.
— Mark Twain
Never promise more than you can perform.
— Publilius Syrus
The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.
— Viktor E. Frankl
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.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Every man must bear his own burden.
— Vincent Van Gogh
If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.
— Charles Dickens
Apply this simple rule to your conversations: If you wouldn't write it down and sign it, don't say it.
— H Jackson Brown, Jr.