Responsibility quotes

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”
Katharine Hepburn

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
Carol Burnett

“My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey

“We are seeing a globalization of indifference. There is a culture of conflict, which makes us think only of ourselves. Makes us live in soap bubbles which, however lovely, are also insubstantial. We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our...” (continue)(continue reading)
Jonathan Pryce - Pope Francis

“I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.”
Sir Sidney Poitier

“People do bad things; if you're lucky, you get a chance to set it right, but most of the time it goes unpunished. This ain't one of them times.”
Denzel Washington - Robert McCall

“- David Drumlin: I wish the world was a place where fair was the bottom line, where the kind of idealism you showed at the hearing was rewarded, not taken advantage of. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world.
- Ellie Arroway: Funny, I've always believed that the world is what we make of it.”
Tom Skerritt - David Drumlin
Jodie Foster - Eleanor Arroway

“Film is too vast a medium for self-indulgence. It's a dangerous tool and you must be responsible when you use it.”
Fritz Lang

“I forgot that I was hired to do a job for you and that it was just a temp job at that. I forgot that I had two hundred and fifty million people who were paying me to make their lives a little better and I didn't live up to my part of the bargain.”
Kevin Kline - Bill Mitchell

Every piece of this is man's bullshit. They call this war "a cloud over the land" but they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say "Shit, it's raining!".
Renee Zellweger - Ruby Thewes

“- Matt Weston: I'm responsible for you.
- Tobin Frost: You're responsible for yourself.”

Ryan Reynolds - Matt Weston
Denzel Washington - Tobin Frost

“Any fool with a dick can make a baby, but only a real man can raise his children.”
Laurence Fishburne - Furious Styles

“You will say that I should have known terrible things were about to happen. You will say that I was responsible. But even so, what could I have done by then? Wade lived on the edge of his emotions. He was always first to receive the brunt of our father's anger. He had no perspective to retreat to, even in a crisis.”
Willem Dafoe - Rolfe Whitehouse

“Trust, responsibility, taking the weight for your choices and feelings, and spending the rest of your life living up to them. And above all, not hurting the object of your love.”

Philip Anthony Hopkins - William Parrish

There's an old saying: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost.
For want of a horseshoe, the steed was lost. For want of a steed, the message was not delivered.
For want of an undelivered message, the war was lost".
Shin'ichi Chiba - Kamata

“You feel a huge sense of responsibility when you're playing a real person.”
Jeremy Strong

“You just have to decide what kind of a man you want to grow up to be, Clark; because whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's... he's gonna change the world.”
Kevin Costner - Jonathan Kent

“With great ability comes great accountability.”
Brian Tyree Henry - Jefferson Davis

“You don’t get to blame your problems on anyone but yourself.”
Emmy Raver-Lampman - Allison Hargreeves

“One always has to accept one’s own part, I believe, in any mess.”
Imelda Staunton - Queen Elizabeth II

“You’ve always got a reason! But it’s always someone else’s fault! At some point, you’re going to have to take responsibility.”
Glenn Close - Mamaw

“A person, an adult, has to, at one point or another, take responsibility for who they are.”
Jessie Buckley - Young Woman

“- Patricia Terrill: Don't you care what people think of you?
- James McKay: I'm not responsible for what people think, Pat, only for what I am.”

Carroll Baker - Patricia Terrill
Gregory Peck - James McKay

“- Marianne Borg: You're a coward.
- Dr. Evald Borg: Yes. This life sickens me. I will not be forced to take on a responsibility that will make me live for one day longer than I want to. And you know that I mean what I say.”

Ingrid Thulin - Marianne Borg
Gunnar Björnstrand - Dr. Evald Borg

“The universe grows smaller every day, and the threat of aggression by any group, anywhere, can no longer be tolerated. There must be security for all, or no one is secure. Now, this does not mean giving up any freedom, except the freedom to act irresponsibly.”
Michael Rennie - Klaatu