To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

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 and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.

Bear one another's burdens.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Nobody can do it for you.

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

A free man is a jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

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.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

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

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.

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

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

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

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.