Accountability breeds response-ability.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

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.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself—and be lenient to everybody else.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely enjoy exercising authority usually lose it.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Men who reject the responsibility of thought and reason can only exist as parasites on the thinking of others.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I never encounter anything except my responsibility.

Next to the assumption of power is the responsibility of relinquishing it.