Quotes about Responsibility
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
— Abraham Lincoln
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
— Ronald Reagan
If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.
— Bill Gates
It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it.
— Nelson Mandela
People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.
— Albert Ellis
Let it not be said that I was silent when they needed me.
— William Wilberforce
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.
— Lou Holtz
Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?
— Leonard Ravenhill
We choose what attitudes we have right now. And it's a continuing choice.
— John Maxwell
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
— John Maxwell
Never lie; never cheat; never steal. Don't whine; don't complain; don't make excuses.
— John Wooden