“We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.”
“Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.”
“You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.”
“The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''”
“We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.”
“I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it”
“You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.”
“A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.”
“The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.”
“No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.”
“It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”
“If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.”
“If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.”
“It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.”
“They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
“You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.”
“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.”
“A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.”
“Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”
“I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.”
“Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.”
“You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.”
“No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.”
“The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.”
“Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.”
“I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.”
“We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.”
“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.”
“A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.”
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.”