Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it.

Source: Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience (2013)

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

With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility.

Source: Isaac Asimov’s novella “The Bicentennial Man” (1976).

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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 our responsibility.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

Source: Le Petit Prince (1943), a novel by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, translated into English as The Little Prince; Chapter XXI. Original Quote in French: Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l’oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.

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