“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.”

“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”

“Responsibility is the price of greatness.”

“Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.”

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”

“To live without duties is obscene.”

“This is your duty, to act well the part that is given to you.”

“Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.”

“For, stripped of the temporary associations which gave rise to it, it is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return.”

“The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country, than a coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.”

“No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.”

“And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”

“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.”

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”

“Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things … You cannot do more, you should never wish to do less.”

“The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.”

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

“In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.”

“The average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.”

“One of the annoying things about believing in free will and individual responsibility is the difficulty of finding somebody to blame your problems on. And when you do find somebody, it’s remarkable how often his picture turns up on your driver's license.”

“A wrongdoer is often a man who has left some thing undone, not always one who has done some thing.”

“We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”

“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.”

“It’s not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.”

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.”

“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will—his personal responsibility.”

“Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.”

“Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.”

“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.”