Quotes About Responsibility

I am two of the most powerful words; for what you put after them shapes your reality.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when?

We are all self-made, but only the successful will admit it.

99% of failures come from people who make excuses.

You can get old pretty young if you don't take care of yourself.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

The world is run by those who show up not those who wait to be asked.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

The human race will be the cancer of the planet.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right.

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.

Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.

When it comes to raising children, I believe in give and take. I give orders and they take 'em.

Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors.

Do not listen to those who say there is nothing you can do to the very real and large social and environmental issues of our time.

Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!

Every choice you make has an end result.