Responsibility is one of the quiet strengths that shapes a life. It calls us to stand up, speak clearly, and carry our part with courage. As Susan B. Anthony reminded the world, “Women must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself.”

Take responsibility. Act fast. Be thorough. ~ Mark Delp

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility. ~ Albert Einstein

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility. ~ Napoleon Hill

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

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

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

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Every private citizen has a public responsibility. ~ Myra Janco Daniels

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

The three most difficult words to speak are, “I was wrong.” ~ Richard Nixon

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

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 Lyon

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