Quotes from great people about responsibility (200 quotes)

Responsibility is understanding the consequences of your actions and your inaction in different situations. Responsibility is a voluntary decision to show loyalty; it is a kind of indicator of a person’s decency. When you take responsibility, a fire comes that tests your motives and strengthens you. Responsibility is the objective obligation to be responsible for actions and actions, as well as their consequences. Responsibility is a certain level of negative consequences for the subject in case of violation of established requirements. We have prepared for you quotes from great people about responsibility.

To bear responsibility, it is not enough to have strong shoulders and arms, you need intelligence.

Each person is responsible to all people for all people and for everything.

Responsibility to history frees us from responsibility to people.

The system of collective responsibility is in fact wrapped up in a system of collective irresponsibility.

The first condition of all freedom is the responsibility of all officials for all their official actions in relation to any of the citizens before ordinary courts and at common law.

Freedom of speech does not mean that words can be waved like a saber, hacked right and left!

A sense of proportion and a sense of responsibility are not inherent in dull mediocrity. The sweetness of sacrifice and the bitterness of guilt are unusual and not given to her.

The stronger the sense of responsibility, the weaker the thirst for power.

Maturity does not fall from the sky; it must be acquired through hard work. It is acquired only when a person takes responsibility for all events occurring in the life of the country and for all decisions made.

Those who stand high and in full view of everyone should not allow themselves to make impetuous movements.

Much is not permissible for Caesar because everything is permissible to him.

Each side has its own truth. If your truth is destructive, then you punish yourself with responsibility for its destruction.

Responsibility is a strange thing. On the one hand, we are afraid of her, but on the other hand, it is thanks to her that we gain respect and become closer to each other.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Before you relieve yourself of responsibility, find someone to shift it to. Anatoly Ras

Only where we are responsible for our actions, where our sacrifice is free and voluntary, can the decisions we make be considered moral.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Having cured the damaged wing of a kite, you become responsible for its claws.

Victor Hugo

Ignorance of the law is not an excuse. But knowledge often liberates.

If a man still has even a drop of honor, will he really place a terrible burden on the woman - responsibility for life - and leave her in emptiness, without support and support?

Most people don't really want freedom because it comes with responsibility, and most people are afraid of responsibility.

He willingly takes the heaviest burden and meekly places it on the shoulders of others.

Is it possible to escape responsibility by climbing the corporate ladder? Oleg Sein

Responsibility and freedom constitute the spiritual sphere of man. Victor Frankl

Responsibility is the courage to deal with all the consequences of one's actions. Alexander Kruglov

People without strength of character like to invent a “fate” for themselves; this frees them from the need to have their own will - and from responsibility to themselves.

Responsibility without love will not bring much benefit.

Instead of boldly admitting the existing disorder, tragedies, crimes, everyone strives to prove their innocence and find an alibi that allows them to evade responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.

When everything collapses, you need to immediately pin someone against the wall. Evgeny Sagalovsky

Freedom means responsibility. That's why many people are afraid of her.

Bernard Show

Responsibility is the price we pay for power.

Winston Churchill

Caring and responsibility are the building blocks of love, but without respect and knowledge of the loved one, love degenerates into dominance and possessiveness.

If a man has the predominant right to choose, he should be responsible for the result.

Often, someone who does not want to shift responsibility to others is called irresponsible.

Responsibility and freedom constitute the spiritual sphere of man. Victor Frankl

A person can do as he pleases if he agrees to be responsible for it. Somerset Maugham

It's not the work that's exhausting, it's the responsibility.

Otto von Bismarck

When many people get down to business, it won’t be good.

Freedom and responsibility are two sides of the same coin. If you are not ready to take responsibility, you will never be truly free.

Sociologists have determined that we accept internal responsibility for a chosen form of behavior when we think we have chosen it in the absence of strong external pressure. A large reward is one type of such external pressure. It may force us to perform a certain action, but it will not force us to accept internal responsibility for that action.

When everything collapses, you need to immediately pin someone against the wall. Evgeny Sagalovsky

Responsibility is a strange thing. On the one hand, we are afraid of her, but on the other hand, it is thanks to her that we gain respect and become closer to each other. And when we do irresponsible things, we draw the right conclusions... or we don’t.

The battle was won not by the one who gave good advice, but by the one who took responsibility for its implementation and ordered it to be carried out.

To allow evil means to bear responsibility for it.

It is impossible to take a single step on this earth without coming into contact with responsibility and duty that must be fulfilled.

The idea of impartiality leads to the idea of responsibility.

People whose actions depend on their mood cannot be given any serious responsibility.

The surest way to avoid responsibility is to hopelessly diffuse and confuse all responsibility.

Alexander Borin

By placing his fate in someone else's hands, he abdicated all responsibility for his own existence.

Responsibility is one of the best virtues of Man.

Growing up doesn't have to mean getting married or having kids or taking out a mortgage. Growing up means learning to feel responsible for others - and enjoying what this responsibility can bring.

Responsibility extends only to the extent to which the causal connection operates. Wilhelm Windelband

The credit system takes a person to the limit of irresponsibility towards himself.

Jean Baudrillard

There is a paradox in the world - the more power, the less responsibility.

Fyodor Tyutchev

Responsibility loves comfort and is willingly placed on the untouchable.

Knowing that you are giving obviously unsuccessful advice, take responsibility if it is unsuccessfully applied.

Real responsibility can only be personal. The man blushes alone.

Responsibility is a master's quality and only slaves shirk it.

D. Pasmanik

We are not alone in the world and whatever we do, we are responsible for what happens to others.

Gabriel Marcel

Motherly love is the most common and most accepted example of productive love; her very essence is care and responsibility.

The one who complains about fate is the one who is simply afraid to take responsibility.

A person is worth as much as the responsibility he has taken upon himself.

There is no need to shift responsibility for your happiness onto others - everything is in our own hands.

If a person adds the word “poet” to his name, every reader subconsciously expects literary lines from him, written according to all the rules of the Russian language.

Responsibility is a test of a person's courage.

If, feeling sorry for myself, I attribute my troubles to evil fate, I submit myself to evil fate; if I attribute them to treason, I subject myself to treason; but when I take full responsibility upon myself, I thereby defend my human capabilities.

Everyone gives advice easily, but few take responsibility for it.

Man has long ago abandoned participation in the creation of the world and responsibility for it.

Taking responsibility is one thing, but carrying it is another.

Think of yourself not as earthly inhabitants, but as universal ones. In this way, you take on even more responsibility. The concept of responsibility must be developed ad infinitum. The human spirit, as the creator, is responsible for everything it has done. We are responsible not only to ourselves, but also to the Cosmos. The phenomenon of responsibility to the Cosmos must be established in human consciousness.

Love is first of all responsibility, and then pleasure and joy. The happiness of love lies in great responsibility for a person.

Love is a fruitful form of relating to others and to oneself. It involves caring, responsibility, respect and knowledge, as well as a desire for the other person to grow and develop.

Our responsibility to those we have tamed is to teach them to be independent and to get by without us.

A person becomes an adult and independent when he begins to make decisions himself and feel responsible for them. A person becomes old when, feeling responsible, he is no longer able to make new decisions, but makes the same ones.

Cowardice always seeks to shift responsibility to someone else.

When we decide to take responsibility, we stop wasting time blaming time, people and circumstances, that is, what has nothing to do with us.

Responsibility is the word through which I check a person’s attitude towards life.

The freedom of an irresponsible person brings evil.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by heaven, and you are responsible not for the correctness, but for the honesty of the decision.

We are responsible not only for what we do, but also for what we don’t do.

Helping people is a heavy burden, but also a special mission...

We ourselves determine the direction of the wind. There is nothing more important than accepting responsibility for steps not yet taken.

Irresponsible people strive for positions more than those who have a sense of responsibility.

Every person who is superior to others in intelligence and moral qualities, in addition to his will or desire, is responsible for others.

It is the responsibility of every citizen to question authority.

We are the masters of our destiny. They must always make all important decisions in life on their own. Everything is achieved through the work of the soul and the experience of realizing one’s actions.

Complaining means indirectly asking for help, some changes,... continuation. Complaining means trying to shift responsibility for your action onto someone else. And action eliminates the possibility of complaining.

The price of greatness is responsibility for your every thought.

Belief in immortality is not only a comforting belief that makes life easier, it is also a terrible, terrible belief that aggravates life with immeasurable responsibility.

Never shift responsibility for your mistakes onto the shoulders of others - rely only on yourself and then success will not be long in coming.

We confuse responsibility and stress. Responsibility begins to be accompanied by stress only when you do not feel strong enough to carry it.

I finally understood why the Lord, in His love, made people responsible for each other and endowed them with the virtue of hope. For this is how all people became messengers of one God, and in the hands of each person is the salvation of all.

Why are there so many headless people where you have to answer with your head?

Responsibility is like clothing - you can completely take it off, but somehow it’s not comfortable in front of people.

You cannot take responsibility for everyone with whom fate confronts you. If a person cannot be happy while communicating with you, there is no point in wasting your mental energy trying to change him or solve his problems. There are many other people to whom you can give joy and happiness by enjoying their company. If a love affair does not bring you satisfaction, do not cling to it.

The most annoying feeling is the feeling of responsibility. Someday it will drive me crazy.

The dropped burden of responsibility never falls to the ground, it gently falls on the shoulders of others.

The capitalist civilization of modern times killed God; it was the most godless civilization. Responsibility for the crime of deicide lies with her, and not with revolutionary socialism, which only assimilated the spirit of “bourgeois” civilization and accepted its negative legacy.

Why don't people take responsibility for their own destiny instead of muttering another prayer? It would be a worthy gesture. This is exactly the sacrifice that the gods have been waiting for a long time ago.

You must answer for your actions in such a way that you are afraid to ask.

Responsibility loves convenience; it willingly rests on the shoulders of untouchables.

It is necessary for a person to understand that he is the creator and master of the world, that he is responsible for all the misfortunes on earth, and that he also has the glory for all the good things in life.

To be human is to feel responsible. Feel shame in front of poverty, which, it would seem, does not depend on you. Be proud of every victory won by your comrades.

To realize that by laying your own brick, you are helping to build the world.

When distributing tasks, relax, when distributing responsibilities, be alert...

For a weak person, memories are a support, but a strong person, thoughts of loved ones relax and deprive him of courage.

Summer is the season of irresponsibility.

My mother, who was very proud when I entered here, never tired of repeating that I should work for others. A few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal shower and read aloud a letter she had written to Melinda. At the time, she was battling cancer, but saw an opportunity to once again convey her message to us and ended her letter with the words: “Those to whom much is given, more is demanded.”

There are two meanings in life - internal and external. The external has family, business, success; And the inner one - unclear and alien - is the responsibility of everyone for everyone.

Call the fool to account, and then you will answer for everything yourself.

When a person takes responsibility for someone else, it does not need applause. Otherwise everyone will start looking around at the rare sounds in the deaf silence.

One and only one person must be responsible for every assigned task.

Power is duty; freedom is responsibility.

I knew Akunin when he was still the scientific secretary of our editorial office of the Pushkin Library, which published one hundred volumes of Russian literature. What attracts me to his detective stories is that his detective, as a statesman, has responsibility for the assigned case, for the interests of the country. Responsibility is a concept that has practically disappeared now.

You are forever responsible for everyone you have tamed.

The development of a mature personality directly depends on the extent to which a person can take responsibility for his choices, stop blaming others or expecting them to get rid of them, and also recognize the pain associated with his loneliness.

Take on only what you can carry.

Be committed to your decisions, but remain flexible in your approach.

The willingness to take responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-esteem is born.

It is easy to shirk our responsibilities, but we cannot shirk the consequences of shirking our responsibilities.

I bear my personal responsibility for my decision, and the opinions of others are only additional material for me.

When you have someone's life in your hands, it makes you feel so good!

At the first opportunity, Adam shifted all responsibility onto the woman.

A contract should be treated like a marriage: first weigh the pros and cons, and then remain faithful.

Take control of your life and see what happens. The strange thing is: no one is to blame.

Never burden others with what you can do yourself.

Freedom is responsibility to yourself.

Nothing strengthens judgment and quickens conscience like individual responsibility.

Rank does not confer privilege or power. It only imposes responsibility.

If you don't want to get yourself into trouble, always share responsibility.

Exupery is mistaken. We are responsible for those we have tamed, but it is not necessary to stand on ceremony with those who pretended to be tamed in order to tame us.

The scope of moral responsibility is much wider than the scope of judicial codes.

Has everyone paid for their irresponsibility? No, someone ran away from the impending retribution to their favorite toys and became, as always, charming in their amusements.

No man is able to command others until he can command himself.

A true gentleman makes demands on himself, but not on others.

Knowing others is intelligence; self-knowledge is true wisdom; owning others is power; self-mastery is true power.

Knowing what is right and not doing it is worse than cowardice.

Each of us is responsible for the feelings we experience, and we have no right to blame the other for this.

Responsibility is not love. Love is responsibility.

Responsibility for war lies only with the masses; they have everything necessary to prevent war.

Responsibility is a test of a person's courage.

Freedom is not permissiveness, but responsibility. And if you are not responsible for yourself, someone will certainly begin to answer for you, and this will mean slavery.

Asking for forgiveness is easy, but what about taking responsibility for what you have done?

Making a decision, committing an action and being responsible for it - we don’t like this. Our favorite sport is swimming with the current.

There is no doubt that a person can achieve whatever he wants in life. Unless the responsibility for this is shifted to others.

Whoever wishes to wear a crown must put up with its weight.

If you truly love someone, then in addition to the serene happiness that this love gives you, you should also feel responsible for your loved one.

From a certain point in life, everyone is responsible for what they do. And for what he doesn't do.

The government is like a baby: a monstrous appetite at one end and complete irresponsibility at the other.

You are always responsible for what you did not try to prevent.

When a person does nothing, he thinks that he is responsible for everything.

Habit. Here's the problem. All you need is to be conscious of your choices and responsible for your actions.

We have been together since first grade and we are also responsible for everything we do together...

But how to learn to bear responsibility? You need to live in the world, make your own decisions, make your own mistakes.

An ideal bureaucrat is a person who does not make any decisions and avoids any responsibility.

There are few ways to help someone more than by holding them accountable and letting them know you believe in them.

Being fit is a political act: you take responsibility for your own life.

Making a choice can sometimes be incredibly difficult, but not impossible. To say that you had no choice is to absolve yourself of all responsibility.

We confuse responsibility and stress. Responsibility begins to be accompanied by stress only when you do not feel strong enough to bear it.

They offended a person in front of your eyes - and you are to blame.

This knight once made a bad joke... his pun, which he made while talking about light and darkness, was not entirely good. And after that the knight had to joke a little more and longer than he expected. But today is the night when scores are settled. The knight paid his account and closed it!

A sense of proportion and a sense of responsibility are not inherent in mediocrity. The sweetness of sacrifice and the bitterness of guilt are also not characteristic and not given to them.

Amazingly, it is forgiveness, not guilt, that increases responsibility.

A sense of responsibility is not the best sleeping pill.

Let us not try to find someone to blame for the past, but accept our own responsibility for the future.

- Japan! Let's hug! - W-w-w-what are you doing?! This is my first time! And that's why I want you to take full responsibility!

Take back responsibility for your own life.

Love takes responsibility for another. Where they love, they no longer say “I”, but say “you”: “I am responsible for you. And you are responsible for me.” Those who love stand together before God and say not “me and you,” but say “we.”

Spirituality, freedom and responsibility are the three existentials of human existence.

I understood one thing: I cannot be judged or disqualified. Only I am my own judge. I cannot refer to the past and say that the judges, parents, and coach are to blame. Only we are responsible for everything. This is all true reality.

Every person is the author of his own life. What goes around comes around. One thing is obvious to me: responsibility for everything that happens to you lies only with you - regardless of whether you agree with what is happening or not.

Meat consumers are responsible for all the pain and suffering that comes from eating meat and is caused by the very fact of eating living beings. Not only the horrors of the slaughterhouse, but also the preceding tortures of transportation, hunger, thirst, endless torments of fear, which these unfortunate creatures are doomed to endure in order to satisfy the gastronomic desires of man. All this pain places a heavy burden on the human race, slowing down and inhibiting its progress and development.

The crowd is anonymous and bears no responsibility. The sense of responsibility, which always restrains individuals, completely disappears in the crowd.

Responsibility is the same as a chocolate bar. It’s better to divide it among everyone...

An idea is not responsible for those who believe in it.

Responsibility means authorship. To be aware of responsibility means to be aware of the creation by oneself of one’s Self, one’s destiny, one’s troubles in life, one’s feelings, as well as one’s suffering, if any.

Any woman is waiting for someone who will take responsibility for her, and no one likes to make final decisions.

I'm not going to be responsible for all the alcoholics in the world.

If you gave intelligence to a machine, if you taught it to feel and experience, then you are responsible for it.

You are not responsible for what other people expect from you. If they expect too much from you, then it is their fault, not your fault.

Responsibility is a concept that has practically disappeared now.

The ninth department of Kashchenko is a replica of our society. Half of its population is not aware of what is happening to them, to the world, what will happen to their children, about whose love they are ready to talk for hours. Especially when there is nothing more to talk about... Depressions that repeat year after year bring them here again and again. And how many others are there whose depression does not bring them here?

He took upon himself what I could not bear—responsibility.

A person can curse his childhood as much as he wants, endlessly reproach his parents for all his misfortunes, weaknesses and vices, blame them for the harsh trials of life, but ultimately he himself is responsible for his destiny and becomes what he wanted to become.

The one who pronounces the sentence raises the sword himself.

She is still a child at heart. Like any romantic, she is prone to self-destruction. So, having become captive of a fleeting passion, she... she is ready to completely forget about responsibility.

The best way to avoid responsibility is to say: “I am responsible for this.”

If, for example, you started a family, you must remember this day and night.

You have to have character so that you have someone to blame it on.

A man is responsible for the Big World, and a woman is responsible for the Small World... The Small World is much more important than the Big World... The Small World is the world of love for man, and the Big World is love for humanity.

Hey, you created me. You created a worthless alter ego to increase your tone, so answer for it.

We are responsible for those we undress.

Sometimes the biggest decision is admitting that you have too much on your plate.

You may not care about your obligations to us, but don't act like you don't know about them.

Why should people grow up, because childhood is so good? It’s great when you’re not responsible for anything, when they take care of you, when you don’t have to worry about anything, because someone big and strong has already decided everything for you. How wonderful life would be without all these adult problems.

When you live for yourself, all responsibility is on you. There is no point in being angry with someone and regretting something. Once you understand this, you can come to terms with anything.

It depends on everyone what to depend on later.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

If, wanting to justify myself, I attribute my troubles to evil fate, I submit myself to evil fate; if I attribute them to treason, I subject myself to treason; but when I take full responsibility upon myself, I thereby defend my human capabilities.

When you don't know anything, you can make up everything. And when you know, it’s such a responsibility.

Referring to the catchphrase

Each of us has at least once heard the following phrase: “We are responsible for those we have tamed.” Its author is the French essayist and writer of the 20th century Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. And she is found in a fairy tale for adults called “The Little Prince”. Nowadays it is most often used in relation to our smaller brothers, which can be understood - animals need the care and protection of people (often from other representatives of humanity who are cruel), since they are able to provide it to them.

But Antoine de Saint-Exupéry put a different meaning into the phrase “We are responsible for those we have tamed.” The writer himself, as a person, made the highest demands on himself. This is important to mention. And the expression means that all the people around us (relatives, friends, loved ones) are tamed by us. They trust us, love us, appreciate us, and hope for reciprocity. And those for whom these people feel this way should not allow betrayal towards them. Or for them to experience grief, worry, pain. The bottom line is that we are responsible for the happiness of our loved ones. Just like they are for ours.