Home › Quotes › Responsibility Quotes

Responsibility Quotes

Quotes about responsibility and owning your life. This hand-picked collection brings together 21 of the finest responsibility quotes ever written — from Chinese Proverb, John Milton, William Shakespeare and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

— Chinese Proverb

Accuse not Nature! She hath done her part; do thou but thine.

— John Milton

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

— Aristotle

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

— George Bernard Shaw

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pets are humanising. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all life.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

— Dalai Lama

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

— Voltaire

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted.

— Lord Byron

Time is a created thing. To say I don't have time is like saying I don't want to.

— Lao Tzu

The price of greatness is responsibility.

— Winston Churchill

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

— Epicurus

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

— Anne Frank

We forge the chains we wear in life.

— Charles Dickens

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

— Buddha

The price of greatness is responsibility — take it, and greatness follows.

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

— William Shakespeare

The future depends on what we do in the present.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Related collections

💬 Comments

Have a favourite quote or wish to add, or a correction to suggest? Share it below — the best suggestions make this collection better for everyone.