Quotes About Responsibility

The right thing is a luxury for rich and sheltered people. For the rest of us, the only right thing is staying out of trouble and surviving as best we can.

Be careful of what you dwell on and what you say. Your thoughts and words will either acquit or condemn you.

It is your life, accept the responsibility.

If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.

A decision is a responsibility, if you cannot handle responsibility, don't take decisions.

In all, Nigeria belongs to us all and we have a personal responsibility to see that it succeeds

Perfection of this human life happens when we take the responsibility to be and act as authentic Leaders in every life situation.

The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.

The words "I am ..." are potent words be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.

If we are not responsible for the thoughts that pass our doors we are at least responsible for those we admit and entertain.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says thinks or does is without consequences.

I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

It is no use blaming the men-we made them what they are-and now it is up to us to try and make ourselves-the makers of men-a little more responsible.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.

Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

It could never be a correct justification that, because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, that the blacks must oppress them today because they have power.

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.

Freedom is the power to choose our own chains

True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.