Responsibility

"Women must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself." ~ Susan B. Anthony

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.~ Billie Jean King

If it is to be, it is up to me.~ William H Johnsen

People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it.~ John Steinbeck

Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame. ~ Erica Jong

There is nothing in the universe that I fear, but that I shall not know all my duty, or shall fail to do it. ~ Mary Lyons

The price of greatness is responsibility. ~ Winston Churchill

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse. ~ Rudyard Kipling

Nobody can do it for you. ~ Ralph Cordiner

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. ~ Andy Warhol

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. ~ Sappho

Each of us has a responsibility for being alive: one responsibility to creation, of which we are a part, another to the creator a debt we repay by trying to extend our areas of comprehension. ~ Maya Angelou

We must exchange the philosophy of excuse for the philosophy of responsibility. ~ Barbara Jordan

Many have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You remain responsible forever, for what you have tamed. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Look twice before you leap. ~ Charlotte Bront

Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it.~ Samuel Smiles

If we really want to know who is responsible for the mess we're in, all we have to do is look in the mirror. You and I own this country, and we are responsible for what happens to it.~ H. Ross Perot

You can't take responsibility for everything. You can't have that kind of control At some point, it's all out of our hands.~ Faye Dunaway

The conflict is one thing I've been waiting for. I'm well and strong and young-- Young enough to go to the front. If I can't be a soldier, I'll help soldiers. ~ Clara Barton

The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility. ~ Jessamyn West

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another. ~ George Eliot

We do not do what we want, and yet we are responsible for what we are.~ John-Paul Sartre

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained. ~ Helen Keller

You can delegate authority, but not responsibility. ~ Stephen W. Comiskey

You can't dodge your responsibilities by saying they don't exist! ~ Douglas Adams

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character. ~ Walter Anderson

Nothing strengthens the judgment and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. ~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

We cannot restore integrity and morality to our society until each of us--singly and individually--takes responsibility for our actions. ~ Harry Emerson Fosdick

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. ~ George Washington Carver