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You and I, we must carry on, Gemma. I cannot afford the luxury of love. I must marry well. And now I must look after you. It is my duty.""If you wish to suffer, you do so of your own free will, not on my behalf. Or Father's or Grandmama's or anyone's. You are a fine physician, Thomas. Why is that not enough?""Because it isn't," he says with a rare candor. "Only this and the hope of nothing more? A quiet respectability with no true greatness or heroism in it, with only my reputation to recommend me. So you see, Gemma, you are not the only one who cannot rule her own life.
— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
I guess what I'm sayin' is, if you want to give Jules a job, be very careful.” “Why be careful?” Marnes asked.Marck gazed up at the confusion of pipes and wires overhead.“'Cause she'll damn well do it. Even if you don't really expect her to.
— Hugh Howey, Wool Omnibus
The ' pleasure' of being drunk is obviously the pleasure of escaping from the responsibility of Consciousness.
— Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness: A New Concept of Egoism
You can't blame anyone else, ... , no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.
— Max Brooks, World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
Why was I chosen?''Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
The ArmfulFor every parcel I stoop down to seizeI lose some other off my arms and knees,And the whole pile is slipping, bottles, buns,Extremes too hard to comprehend at. onceYet nothing I should care to leave behind.With all I have to hold with hand and mindAnd heart, if need be, I will do my best.To keep their building balanced at my breast.I crouch down to prevent them as they fall;Then sit down in the middle of them all.I had to drop the armful in the roadAnd try to stack them in a better load.
— Robert Frost
Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
— Frank Crane
If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.
— Danny Wallace, Yes Man
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
— Stanisław Jerzy Lec
Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life.
— D.H. Lawrence, The Rainbow
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
— Stephen King, The Stand
‎With adulthood comes responsibility.
— Mary Lydon Simonsen, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy
The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result.
— John Bradshaw, Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Yes, it's vital to make lifestyle choices to mitigate damage caused by being a member of industrialized civilization, but to assign primary responsibility to oneself, and to focus primarily on making oneself better, is an immense copout, an abrogation of responsibility.
— Derrick Jensen
We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
— Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men
Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in time, at some spot in the world, a moment of responsibility existed.
— Philip K. Dick
She, too, spoke only when the queen or king addressed her first, but she looked searchingly at every supplicant, and her clear face said that she had opinions about everything she heard, and that it was her proud duty to think out those opinions, and make them responsible and coherent.
— Robin McKinley, Deerskin
Until you accept responsibility for your life, someone else runs your life.
— Orrin Woodward, LIFE
A good work ethic is not so much a concern for hard work but rather one for responsibility. There have been a great many men and women who have in fact used work or hustle or selfish ambition as an escape from real responsibility, an escape from purpose. In matters such as these, the hard worker is just as dysfunctional as the sloth.
— Criss Jami, Healology
I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't do it either, but I am responsible for it because I am a man and a citizen of this country and you are responsible for it, too, for the very same reason... Anyone who is trying to be conscious must begin to dismiss the vocabulary which we've used so long to cover it up, to lie about the way things are.
— James     Baldwin
Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible.
— Hyman G. Rickover
Next you will cry about taxation without representation, and throw a basket of tea into the harbor. You are indeed a very Jacobin at heart, and I think I must give up trying to cure you of it; I can but wash my hands and deny responsibility
— Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon
once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price.You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.
— Ellis Peters, Brother Cadfael's Penance
Our whole social order could self-destruct over the obsession with freedom disconnected from responsibility
—  where choice is imagined to be somehow independent of consequences.
Honor is no phantom. Duty doesn't melt away, no matter how much we might wish it to.
— Claudia J. Edwards, Taming the Forest King
But if the cause be not good, the king himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs and arms and heads, chopped off in battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all 'We died at such a place;' some swearing, some crying for a surgeon, some upon their wives left poor behind them, some upon the debts they owe, some upon their children rawly left. I am afeard there are few die well that die in a battle; for how can they charitably dispose of anything, when blood is their argument? Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it; whom to disobey were against all proportion of subjection.[Henry V, Act IV Scene I]
— William Shakespeare, Henry V
I don't really remember making a decision. I don't remember thinking to myself, "Yes, I will do this," or, "No, I will not do that." They tell you what to do, and you do it. You don't reflect on it. You don't ponder its meaning. You don't explore its ambiguities or consider its consequences. These burdens are removed from you. In theory. But you are still human. Eventually, you do reflect on it. The consequences make themselves known. The results of your actions persist. Eventually, you are struck by their meaning. At some point, an accounting is made. Eventually, if you are human, and sane, you examine what you have done.
— Stephen Dau, The Book of Jonas
You'll get into dreadful trouble and it won't be my fault. You are bad people.
— Terry Pratchett, Johnny and the Dead
A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes — as it is already to a large extent — no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a “free-range” warren but a “battery” one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.
— Italo Calvino, Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985
The hammer never complains of the noise.
— Marty Rubin
Anyone can change the world and everyone should try.
— Chantal Wiebe, M.Ed
Sometimes it isn't easy to be sane, smart, and responsible. Sometimes it sucks. Sucks wang. Camel wang. But that doesn't turn wrong into right or stupid into smart.
— Jim Butcher, Cold Days
The Drowned Cities hadn’t always been broken. People broke it. First they called people traitors and said they didn’t belong. Said these people were good and those people were evil, and it kept going, because people always responded, and pretty soon the place was a roaring hell because no one took responsibility for what they did, and how it would drive others to respond.
— Paolo Bacigalupi, The Drowned Cities
His existence had always been comfortable, he had always held a clear picture of himself, his duties, and his place in a world. He saw that world as a place so full of turning gears he had no hope of comprehending how things fit together, so why even try?Now things were different, however. Now he wasn’t just looking out from inside of the clockwork. Instead, he was actually seeing the final motion of the escapement—the ticking hands of the clock itself.And it was a doomsday clock.Both his feline and human instincts told him to let it be. It was not his problem, or his place to interfere. If the living world was destined to fall, let it happen, let it pass into history once and for all. Who was he to try to save it?But on the other hand, if the living world were lost, then there would never again be great cats to furjack . . . and couldn’t it be that hearing the actual ticking of the clock gave one the responsibility to stop it?
— Neal Shusterman, Everfound
Information sharing produces shared awareness among the participants, and collaborative production relies on shared creation, but collective action creates shared responsibility, by tying the user's identity to the identity of the group.
— Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.
— Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action
Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow human being. Perhaps the only more terrifying prospect is that such a fate should befall us or our loved ones. This is why we, a representative cross-section of America's population, keep deadly weapons for personal defense.
— Massad Ayoob, In the Gravest Extreme: The Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection
It’s adult swim time and I’m diving in here at the shallow end.
— Suzanne Finnamore
I should try to pass along the good that has happened to me. That’s my responsibility as being part of this planet.
— Jameson Currier, The Third Buddha
Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
— Louise Penny, Still Life
The mind of Caesar. It is the reverse of most men's. It rejoices in committing itself. To us arrive each day a score of challenges; we must say yes or no to decisions that will set off chains of consequences. Some of us deliberate; some of us refuse the decision, which is itself a decision; some of us leap giddily into the decision, setting our jaws and closing our eyes, which is the sort of decision of despair. Caesar embraces decision. It is as though he felt his mind to be operating only when it is interlocking itself with significant consequences. Caesar shrinks from no responsibility. He heaps more and more upon his shoulders.
— Thornton Wilder, The Ides of March
She knew his secret: for all his wandering, his independence and his unorthodox ways, he took his responsibilities very seriously. He even borrowed others' responsibilities, making them his own simply because he thought this sort of service was owed to those whom he loved.
— Meredith Duran, Wicked Becomes You
‎"If there is no discipline, there is anarchy. Good citizenship demands attention to responsibilities as well as rights.
— Joe Clark
She nodded without conviction, wishing she could be so carefree, and not the sort of person for whom an unanswered letter gnawed away at the back of her mind. Nobody liked a stick-in-the-mud...but they liked all the things sticks-in-the-mud did for them, didn't they? They liked not having to worry because someone else, someone who couldn't sleep when she had left a duty unperformed, would make sure that nothing too terrible happened.
— Rose Lerner, True Pretenses
A moment when the worst had already happened, so there was nothing left to worry about. I wanted to stop forever in that pause between cause and effect. A place where I didn’t have to be responsible for everybody all of the time.
— Jo Furniss, All the Little Children
It is naturally a sign of inner liberation when a patient can squarely recognize his difficulties and take them with a grain of humor. But some patients at the beginning of analysis make incessant jokes about themselves, or exaggerate their difficulties in so dramatic a way that they will appear funny, while they are at the same time absurdly sensitive to any criticism. In these instances humor is used to take the sting out of an otherwise unbearable shame.
— Karen Horney, Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
Make good boundaries your goal. They are your right, your responsibility, your greatest source of dignity.
— Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
But you can't just leave it at that!" said Anathema, pushing forward. "Think of all things you could do! Good things.""Like what?" said Adam suspiciously."Well... you could bring all the whales back, to start with."He put his head on one side. "An' that'd stop people killing them?"She hesitated. It would have been nice to say yes."An' if people do start killing 'em, what would you ask me to do about 'em?" said Adam. "No. I reckon I'm getting the hang of this now. Once I start messing around like that, there'd be no stoppin' it. Seems to me, the only sensible thing is for people to know if they kill a whale, they've got a dead whale.
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Jeb is going to grow up to be the kind of man who spends his Saturdays teaching his little boy to ride a bike. (...) Charlie, on the other hand, will be off playing golf while his kid kills people on his Xbox. Charlie will be dashing and debonair, and he'll buy his kid all kinds of crap, but he'll never actually be there.
— John Green, Let it Snow
If you're struggling with problems or issues and you don't take the time to look after yourself, this will affect your ability to do well for others. Everything will suffer, your interactions, your relationships and the things you set out to do. It is necessary to take rest when you need it, to look after yourself, to keep yourself healthy, and to take some reprieve. Taking the best care of your health that you can is vital. There is no shame in looking after yourself! Being at the best you can be will allow you to give your best. It is not noble or loving to constantly sacrifice your well-being for that of others. People who love you would never want that from you. It hurts everyone involved.Take care of yourself first!
— Akiroq Brost
You say you are disappointed with life. But maybe it is life that' is disappointed with you.
— Marty Rubin
A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.
— Beverly Engel, The Power of Apology: Healing Steps to Transform All Your Relationships
Responsibility is not doing as we are told, that's obedience. Responsibility is doing what is right.
— Simon Sinek, Leaders Eat Last
Take accountability before an excuse snatches you.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Raced Fairyland All the Way Home
The only alternative to making mistakes is for someone to make all your decisions for you, in which case you will make their mistakes instead of your own.
— Grace Llewellyn, The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
She is in charge of everything, but no one knows. It is a tremendous burden, she says, to be responsible for every little thing, every infant born, every leaf falling from every tree, every wave that breaks onto the beach, every ant on its journey.
— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
She didn't want to be the human race. It sounded too big a responsibility.
— Anne Corlett, The Space Between the Stars
It is easy to let go of the string and think: This isn't me, it's the arrow. My hands do not bear the blood of this boy, it's the arrow that killed him, not me. But the arrow does not dream at night.
— Andrzej Sapkowski, Sword of Destiny
The attempt of trying to solve a problem without analyzing responsibilities is like trying to understand why a gun was shot without talking to the one using it.
— Robin Sacredfire
Every leader has a right to lead followers in the right direction and the responsibility to empower them to achieve much more.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures.
— Gift Gugu Mona
Responsibility was our cruel mooring....
— David Brin, Brightness Reef
It is the brain's full and absolute responsibility to evolve, nobody will do it for it, and grace and salvation do not exist. The brain must take its place as the source of grace and learn to operate itself properly. In fact, its transformation will begin when it will bear all responsibility alone.
— Shai Tubali, The Mystical Enlightenment of Friedrich Nietzsche: On the Death of God and the God Within
I love you", once you say this sentence to a girl, it signifies that you have a responsibility towards her.
— Yixing Zhang, 而立·24
The power itself comes from the fact that you can do something and people can’t see you do it and what kind of responsibility do you have when you can do it. What kind of good things can you do or can you do good things from being invisible in this way?
— Trenton Lee Stewart
Men are not angered by mere misfortune but by misfortune conceived as injury. And the sense of injury depends on the feeling that a legitimate claim has been denied. The more claims on life, therefore, that [they]... make, the more often [they] will feel injured and, as a result, ill-tempered.
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
If you have the opportunity to help, then you have the responsibility to do it, do what is right simply because it is the right thing to do
— Jennifer Lawrence
The ultimate Maturing comes only when we lose our parent(s)
—  we can keep them young though by maturing earlier as a responsibility.
Firearms, if you think about it, are power tools. They drill holes in things and chew things up. That’s their purpose. The purpose of the user is, quite simply, to puncture and destroy the right things and not the wrong things.
— Massad Ayoob, Gun Safety in the Home
We are responsible. There is nothing being done to us apart from what we are doing to ourselves.
— Lujan Matus, The Art of Stalking Parallel Perception: Revised 10th Anniversary Edition: The Living Tapestry of Lujan Matus
In the end, the focus on safety should be credited to the entire firearms-owning community, the “gun culture” if you will.
— Massad Ayoob, Gun Safety in the Home
God is willing to reveal His plans to us and His ways, if He sees that we are willing to stand till the end and take responsibility for our nation
— Sunday Adelaja
It is the responsibility of each new generation to restore the authority of God in every sphere of life
— Sunday Adelaja
Together with the call comes responsibility
— Sunday Adelaja
What do we mean by ‘crazy’? What do we mean by ‘mad’? At what point is a person just different and at what point can we call it a disease and say that they are not responsible for their actions? Or are we all slaves to the chemical processes that go on in our brains?
— Jo Nesbø
Our behavior, our feelings, our self-worth, our abilities, and our actions are never hinged to that of another.-Akiroq
— Akiroq Brost
The moment you take 100 percent responsibility for everything in your life is the same moment you claim your power to change anything in your life. However, the crucial distinction is to realize that taking responsibility is not the same thing as accepting blame. while blame determines who is at fault for something, responsibility determines who is committed to improving a situation. It rarely matters who is at fault. All that matters is that you are committed to improving your situation.
— Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Your SELF to Elevate Your BUSINESS
Being responsible is carrying out duties towards what you are paid for, right? Think again. It are what you acquire without being compensated, or beyond expected compensation. Responsible ones always excel. Acquiring temperament of taking responsibilities is an attitude.
— Sandeep Sahajpal
A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn’t sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn’t have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.
— James     Baldwin, A Rap on Race
Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations.
— Norhafsah Hamid, Back to Basics
It's really my fault because I continue listening to the things that you say.
— Brian Clevinger, 8-Bit Theater
A great deal of what I say just leaves me open, I suppose, to a vast amount of misunderstanding. A great deal of what I say is based on an assumption which I hold and don’t always state. You know my fury about people is based precisely on the fact that I consider them to be responsible, moral creatures who so often do not act that way. But I am not surprised when they do. I am not that wretched a pessimist, and I wouldn’t sound the way I sound if I did not expect what I expect from human beings, if I didn’t have some ultimate faith and love, faith in them and love for them. You see, I am a human being too, and I have no right to stand in judgment of the world as though I am not a part of it. What I am demanding of other people is what I am demanding of myself.'- James Baldwin
— Margaret Mead, A Rap on Race
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— Christina Engela, Bugspray
The Hierarchic Qualm: The sword kills. But the arm moves the sword. Is the arm to blame for murder? No. The mind moves the arm. Is the mind to blame? No. The mind has sworn an oath to duty, and that duty moves the mind, as written by the Throne. So it is that a servant of the Throne is blameless.
— Seth Dickinson, The Traitor Baru Cormorant
The duty of planning the morrow's work is today's duty...
— C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Isn't that what everyone wants, just for a moment to be unencumbered?
— Ann Patchett, Commonwealth
Continually trying to satisfy someone who attempts to control you is like bailing someone out of jail when they need to learn a lesson. They will never learn how to take care of themselves unless you are not there to take care of them. Get out of the middle. You take care of you. Let God take care of them.
— Kate McGahan
Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
If your faith is genuine, then you meet your responsibilities, fulfill your obligations, and wait until you are found. It will come. If not to you, then to your children, and if not to them, then to their children.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
All I Ever Loved And TransformedBy My Loving Soul ... God,I Really Do Hope ... No One Is Ever GoingTo Love, It.P.C.M. Hermans
— Petra Hermans
A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck.
— Saaif Alam
God does not hold our environment accountable for our behavior
—  he holds us accountable. (p79)
The end is always the same. That's why what we do does matter. Good or bad, we die. If we bring some light and prosperity into the world, isn't that better than there being less light?
— L.E. Modesitt Jr., Colors of Chaos
A big name or a big designation doesn't make a man big but responsibilities do.
— Vikash Shrivastava
Blaming has no positive effect at all
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here? The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power
Is being responsible a form of love too?
— Nilesh Rathod, Destiny of Shattered Dreams
He was only twelve, but he knew enough to realize that the way before him would be hard. Is it worth it? he asked himself. Was it worth losing his old life in order to learn the truth of who he was and who he was becoming? Yes. Like the pluck of a stringed instrument, the first edge of the sun broke loose and poured light over the world.
— Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten
Each of us has an undeniable responsibility to ourself and the rest of the world to be our personal best on any given day.
— Laurie Buchanan, PhD
Podo and Leeli finally came back to where the others rested, and though her face still bore the weight of her sorrow, Janner could see that is sister was present. Her eyes didn't see stare into nothing. They saw the situation, grieved for it, and faced it.
— Andrew Peterson, North! or Be Eaten
Parentified children learn to take responsibility for themselves and others early on. They tend to fade into the woodwork and let others take center stage. This extends into adulthood - adult children may put others' needs before their own. They may have difficulty accepting care and attention.
— Kimberlee Roth, Surviving a Borderline Parent: How to Heal Your Childhood Wounds and Build Trust, Boundaries, and Self-Esteem
True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Let us not look at the talents we wish we had or pine away for the gifts that are not ours but instead do the best we can with what we have.
— B.J.  Richardson
True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
If I've learned anything this trip, it's that you have to take responsibility for what you don't do, as well as what you do.
— Nick O'Donohoe, The Magic and the Healing
Aunt Elspeth and Auntie Grace stood in their doorway, ceremoniously, to watch me go, and I felt as if I were a ship with their hope on it, dropping down over the horizon.
— Alice Munro
Biblical interpretation is not a passive matter. It requires our own active negotiation. When we pretend that, deep down, all the voices are really saying the same thing and ought to be able to get along, we forfeit our responsibility as inheritors of this richly, sometimes disturbingly, contradictive literature.
— Timothy Beal, The Rise and Fall of the Bible: The Unexpected History of an Accidental Book
Believe it, brethren, God looks for more from England, than from most nations in the world; and for more from you that enjoy these helps, than from the dark, untaught congregations of the land (271).
— Richard Baxter, The Saints' Everlasting Rest
My heart is responsible of My Pain & Heart Breaking ...So I not Blame Any One ...
— M Kashif Khan
The key to healthy communication is having a willingness to lay aside our defensive tendencies and accept responsibility for our part of the relationship
— Asa Don Brown, Interpersonal Skills in the Workplace, Finding Solutions that Work
What do Chile, Biafra, the boat people, Bologna, or Poland matter? All of that comes to be annihilated on the television screen. We are in the era of events without consequences (and of theories without consequences).
— Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
I know that things get worse before they get better because that's what my psychiatrist says, but this is a worse that feels too big.
— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
It is your life, accept the responsibility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Don’t serve time. Make time serve you.
— Timothy G. Cameron
Your maturity is based upon your responsibility.
— David Cwenar
Responsibility is definitely not something you feel
—  it is something you wear.
He believed that rank without power was a sham.
— Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
Follow your passion, but never forget your responsibilities.
— Jorge P. Guerrero
Everyone had their own responsibilities, duties and feeling, only you don't have yourself, when you are in love.
— Nutan Bajracharya
If each psychology student could help one patient rather than formatting their thesis every semester, then millions of sufferers would benefit each year.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
You are not responsible for the murderous rampage of an alien psycho, okay?
— Pittacus Lore, The Fate of Ten
People are only worth what their responsibilities make them
— Lincoln Cole, Ripples Through Time
You are responsible for your own life and what happens in it, so are the other people.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life
You are no more responsible for what that man said than I am. You cannot take the blame for another's actions.
— Kristi Ann Hunter, A Lady of Esteem
You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother.
— Bohumil Hrabal
Those who take responsibility for their actions are the real winners in life. Winners meet life challenges and head on, knowing there are no gurantees, and give it all they've got, and never think it's too late, or too early to begin.
— Anonymous
Apology makes you self responsible while excuse makes you undependable
— Prabakaran Thirumalai
I lay there under the stars and thought of what a great responsibility it is to be human.
— Donald Miller, Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality
Man is either Viceroy or else he is an animal that claims special rights by virtue of its cunning and the devouring efficiency of teeth sharpened by technological instruments... But if he is Viceroy, then all decay and trouble in the created world that surrounds him is in some measure to be laid to his account
— Charles Le Gai Eaton, King of the Castle: Choice and Responsibility in the Modern World
We feel responsibility but we never let ourselves feel connectedness.
— Vatsal Surti, To Desire
Every sensitive person should make his point of view let known, at least, to one person other than yourself on every subject that gets you worked up. This is basic to every social being. And like theory of vibration it gains momentum as the time passes. However, it also happens that it can turn out to be wasted effort. Because we are common people. The fact that we are of no consequence, so are our utterances and statements, makes us indifferent to a lot of issues and situations around us. However, in a set-up we live in, it becomes incumbent upon every educated individual to air our views for the general good of all. Like wise, as public-spirited individuals we must believe in doing something, rather than grumble at home over the breakfast table that the World is not a pleasant place. After all, lighting a lamp is wiser than cursing the darkness.
— Manasa Rao
The birth of a better world is not ultimately up to you, though I know, each day, there are grown men and women who tell you otherwise. The world needs saving precisely because of the actions of these same men and women. I am not a cynic. I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every new inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful—the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements. And this is not reducible to just you—the women around you must be responsible for their bodies in a way that you never will know. You have to make your peace with the chaos, but you cannot lie.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.
— Deidre Huesmann, Secrets in the Fade
But your responsibilities are sometimes given you without choice, without consent.
— Terry Brooks, The Elfstones of Shannara
Personal Responsibility is the acknowledgement of the fact that I am personally responsible for what is happening in my life, in my surrounding and in my nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is when an individual volunteers to be in charge of duties, tasks and is ready to see to its fulfilment
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is when a person refuses to run away from challenges and difficulties, when he refuses to blame others, when he decides to rise to the occasion.
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is when a person sees a problem and refuses to be indifferent, but decides to rather look for ways and means of resolving the problem
— Sunday Adelaja
For a nation to be truly transformed, there must be movements, civil societies, NGOs that are spread all across the land to educate people on the issues of Personal Responsibility. If a nation or rather active citizens of a nation could successfully launch such campaigns and a good percentage of the populace begin to live by the principles of Personal Responsibility, which is “don’t blame others”, think of what you can do to fix it. Such a nation would cross the huddle of civilization in a record time.
— Sunday Adelaja
Never forsake your motherland.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In nations where to most people, the personal responsibility of a citizen towards the nation does not really mean anything, most citizens of such nations end up playing the blame game
— Sunday Adelaja
The level of Personal Responsibility in developed countries is averagely much higher than is seen in developing nations.
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is the state of being the person who caused something to happen.
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility is something that you should do because it is morally right, legally required, etc.
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility of each citizen before the nation, is usually well defined in all developed nations.
— Sunday Adelaja
So many people don't think seriously about the fact that Personal Responsibility is one of the most essential credentials in National transformation
— Sunday Adelaja
Personal Responsibility leads to collective responsibility.
— Sunday Adelaja
Taking personal responsibility is the major difference between the best and the rest.
— Dhaval Gajera
You couldn't say: It's not my fault. You couldn't say: It's not my responsibility.You could say: I will deal with this.You didn't have to want to. But you had to do it.
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
It is hard to understand how a compassionate world order can include so many people afflicted by acute misery, persistent hunger and deprived and desperate lives, and why millions of innocent children have to die each year from lack of food or medical attention or social care. This issue, of course, is not new, and it has been a subject of some discussion among theologians. The argument that God has reasons to want us to deal with these matters ourselves has had considerable intellectual support. As a nonreligious person, I am not in a position to assess the theological merits of this argument. But I can appreciate the force of the claim that people themselves must have responsibility for the development and change of the world in which they live. One does not have to be either devout or non devout to accept this basic connection. As people who live-in a broad sense-together, we cannot escape the thought that the terrible occurrences that we see around us are quintessentially our problems. They are our responsibility-whether or not they are also anyone else's. As competent human beings, we cannot shirk the task of judging how things are and what needs to be done. As reflective creatures, we have the ability to contemplate the lives of others. Our sense of behavior may have caused (though that can be very important as well), but can also relate more generally to the miseries that we see around us and that lie within our power to help remedy. That responsibility is not, of course, the only consideration that can claim our attention, but to deny the relevance of that general claim would be to miss something central about our social existence. It is not so much a matter of having the exact rules about how precisely we ought to behave, as of recognizing the relevance of our shared humanity in making the choices we face.
— Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom
Never blame anyone for your life. You are responsible for you.
— Debasish Mridha
While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers has the responsibility to take the gospel a bit further. To conquer some more territories and to expand the influence of the kingdom to a higher horizon
— Sunday Adelaja
For of those to whom much is given, much is required
— John F Kennedy, from Luke 12.48
While we thank God for them and their efforts, we must also know that our generation of believers have the responsibility to take the gospel a bit further
— Sunday Adelaja
I AM RESPONSIBLE FOR THE THING I DO NOT WHAT MY COMMUNITY OR RELIGION DOES.
— merlin8thomas
I suppose it does come with a certain responsibility.”“What does?” asked Annie.“The magnificence of my person.”“Gah.
— Caleb Crain, Necessary Errors
It's hard to admit, but if we're brutally honest with ourselves, we see that God is more responsible for the accomplishments of our lives than we are.
— Tim Hiller, Strive: Life is Short, Pursue What Matters
We laugh and jest at what we call “street boys or area boys” instead of thinking of what we could do, to get them occupied or send them to school and create work opportunities for them. We rather choose to build walls around our compounds, electrocuted fences to protect out interest and personal comfort. That only shows lack of Personal Responsibility.
— Sunday Adelaja
Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool
— Dean Koontz, Deeply Odd
The first and most important thing that God requires of a man is to bear responsibility for future generations
— Sunday Adelaja
When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute bad behavior to disease (to excuse the agent);never attribute good behavior to disease (lest we deprive the agent of credit); and typically attribute good behavior to free will and insist bad behavior called mental illness is a "no fault" act of nature.
— Thomas Szasz, Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted
Turning back against your responsibilityas a father is the most spineless thing you can do.
— Bradley B. Dalina
If you know that God may soon be entrusting you with a particular ministry, then it's important that you look ahead to what may be awaiting you in the future and see how you can prepare yourself for it
— Sunday Adelaja
I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of living it up as a flamboyant daredevil in his dreams, he could have chosen to be a responsible man in real life, going about his work with dignity, and people may just have treated him with respect. Did his failures in life lead him to seek solace in daydreams or did his wandering mind stand in the way of his potential success? One must have triggered the other, and then it would have been both working together. An empty life drives you to fantasies of fulfilment, which then form a deadly, vicious circle which can turn you into a cartoon, as it did poor Mitty. Or lead you to ruin like Madame Bovary.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Your life and how you experience it is entirely your making. Only if this absolutely sinks in, will you make the necessary changes.
— Sadghuru
Baby, I’m so sorry. You know I wouldn’t feel right, if I ran away from my responsibilities. I’d have to live with that decision for the rest of my life. My being in the war could save lives. My running away will only save mine. It’s a selfish decision to make. I’ll come back to you. I promise.
— Jason Medina, No Hope for the Hopeless at Kings Park
A man can never be truly free when he knows that he is neglecting his duties elsewhere.
— Fennel Hudson, A Waterside Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 2
The level of our responsibility in things of God determines our level of prosperity.
— Sunday Adelaja
For so long, I was stuck in "either or" thinking. Either I had to change myself, or change the world. Either it was his fault or my fault. Either you had to stop acting that way or I had to stop reacting this way. Either there was something wrong with me or something wrong with them. I would fluctuate between both ends of this dynamic. I'd blame myself for some time and do everything I could to change. When that became tiresome, I'd blame the other, doing everything I could to make them change. When the resentment and frustration became too strong, I'd blame myself again.I've learned that it's never either or. It's always both. I've also learned that, because it's always both, there's no such thing as fault. Fault is only something we can ascribe when we see things superficially. When we look deeper, we see multi-layered, complex systems of causes and effects which affect and are affected by all individuals involved. Fault is a useless concept. Responsibility, however, is the most helpful concept of them all.It's not my fault. It's not his or yours or theirs either. But it is all our responsibility. When we come together like this, we don't have to see-saw back and forth, passing on guilt and blame. We can grow. We can evolve. We can build a better world.
— Vironika Tugaleva
A leader can lose his people if he does not know the problems they are facing.
— Sunday Adelaja
Every person has the responsibility over their own territory.
— Sunday Adelaja
Promise me.”“No.”Etan’s eyes were glassy with tears. “Coward. If I were dying, you’d promise me. Because you wouldn’t have to answer to me then. But I’m not dying, and you won’t promise it. Bloody coward.
— Brian  McClellan, The Crimson Campaign
Emily looked over at Courtney. He was still asleep. For a long time she had thought that if you loved anyone you had to tell him everything: go to him and confess as in the dream; there could be no secrets. But now in the dark of early morning with the copper bottle cold against her fee she felt that this desire to tell all was simply an evasion of responsibility, a weakness in wanting to push on to the person you love something that is your own responsibility to solve. It would be easier for her to tell Courtney all about Abe, to come to him as he sat at this desk in the chill little workroom and confess, to hand the responsibility for her ambivalence to him, to let him settle the problem of her puny conscience for her.But I know, she thought, lying there beside him on Madame Pedroti's lumpy bed, that if I love Courtney that is the last thing I must do. If I love Courtney he must never know.
— Madeleine L'Engle
When you are given a duty, you must honour responsibility.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice
— Ursula K. Le Guin
The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche.
— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
If you're early, you're on time. If you're on time, you're late.
— Lik Hock Yap Ivan
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
— Edmund Burke
Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.
— Chuck Palahniuk
It is, in truth, our responsibility to understand our needs and to adjust our perceptions,thoughts, decisions, behaviors, and environments to reflect these needs. We can’t force others to change, but we can change ourselves.
— Aletheia Luna, Quiet Strength: Embracing, Empowering and Honoring Yourself as an Introvert
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.
— Laurence Overmire, Honor and Remembrance
If you truly love yourself then you will take 100% full responsibility for your thoughts and actions.
— Mathew Donnelly
It’s time to care
—  it’s time to take responsibility
But no matter how much parents and grandparents may have sinned against the child, the man who is really adult will accept these sins as his own condition which has to be reckoned with. Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart.
— C.G. Jung, Dreams