Page 3 Responsibility Quotes

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
Stanley Milgram

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."
Sidney J. Harris

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Abraham Lincoln

The price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston Churchill

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Napoleon Hill

And, one responsibility people often forget about is that of speaking well, instead of speaking without thought or with the intent to hurt or harm. Here we include quotes to live by about speaking that will give you food for positive thought before you decide to open your mouth.

Talking is like playing on the harp; there is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
Ann Landers

If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
Earl Wilson

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Ambrose Bierce

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Spanish Proverb

Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.
Dr. Mardy Grothe

Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are three things to aim at in public speaking: first, to get into your subject, then to get your subject into yourself, and lastly, to get your subject into the heart of your audience
Alexander Gregg

Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
John Wayne