By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.
Wayne DyerIt started to weigh on me that I was responsible for the moves that had made me successful, but I wasn’t reaping the lion’s share of the profits, and that was problematic for me.
Frank OceanThe thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn’t the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.
John LennonCommitment is an act, not a word.
Jean-Paul SartreBeing the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.
LeBron JamesIt is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas SowellAfter 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
Barack ObamaMy father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
Wayne DyerThere is a level of snobbery and fickleness in L.A.
Gordon RamsayPeople need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMan is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.
Jean-Paul SartreGood people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
PlatoAt age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.
Lou HoltzBehind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.
Theodore RooseveltYou are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.
Martin LutherThe moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.
J. K. RowlingIn the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility – I welcome it.
John F. KennedyThe 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 C. MaxwellMy desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
Dalai LamaHow should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?
Alexander the GreatWhat charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen KingFailure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
Napoleon HillI am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond TutuThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund BurkePerhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard ShawIt’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.
Robert KiyosakiI always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.
LeBron JamesOne thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.
Erma BombeckIt’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.
Joyce MeyerWe have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.
Greta ThunbergA hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob DylanI don’t like L.A. It’s just not fun. I don’t know why, but I just don’t get it. You have to drive to get everywhere, and when it rains everybody freaks out.
Lady GagaThe great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you’re the person who takes them to go poop!
Angelina JolieTreat your children like the blessings they are or don’t have them at all.
John KennedyThe issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.
Michelle ObamaA sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaSome people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.
Greta ThunbergWhen a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.
Thomas JeffersonOnly aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
Thomas JeffersonThere are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this: Deny your responsibility.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.
Stephen CoveyI’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.
Jane GoodallUnderstand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.
Anthony BourdainWhen you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.
Colin PowellA lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘
Joyce MeyerIt is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George WashingtonPerhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
Winston ChurchillI know of only one duty, and that is to love.
Albert CamusGreat bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.
Virginia WoolfDo you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House.
John F. KennedyHonor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.
Alexander PopeWe need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.
Michelle ObamaI must follow the people. Am I not their leader?
Benjamin DisraeliI think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.
Bad BunnyAfter you finish a book, you know, you’re dead. But no one knows you’re dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
Ernest HemingwayA president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.
Henry KissingerPower does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard ShawI know I have a responsibility to the fans.
Jackie ChanI try to lead by example, being conscious of others and being responsible.
Angelina JolieI love Los Angeles, and it’s been very good to me, but if everyone is running around telling the stories, who’s living them? You don’t play characters that are celebrities – you play guys who know what to do when their septic tank’s blocked.
Matthew McConaughey