Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

It is pretty hard to talk about responsibility unless you have exercised it yourself.

There's responsibility, but there's also accountability. You have to be accountable for your actions. You have to stand at your locker when things are going bad.

Personal responsibility matters.

As a person, I think you should assume the responsibilities of your actions.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

Not to be cowardly when it comes to our own actions! Not to leave them in the lurch!--The sting of conscience is indecent.

Hold yourselves accountable before you are held accountable.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

You are responsible for the predictable consequences of your actions.

You must accept responsibility for your actions. This doesn't include reactions, interactions or transactions if you're thinkin' loophole.

Acts of individuals are individual. As such they should be tried and punished.

Laws can embody standards; governments can enforce laws—but the final task is not a task for government. It is a task for each and every one of us. Every time we turn our heads the other way when we see the law flouted—when we tolerate what we know to be wrong—when we close our eyes and ears to the corrupt because we are too busy, or too frightened—when we fail to speak up and speak out—we strike a blow against freedom and decency and justice.

Individual consciences are fine but individual consciences have to be made manifest.

The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior.

Your honor, throughout this process I've asked the government and the court to hold me and only me accountable for my actions.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Man is responsible not only for every deed, but also for every idle word and thought.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

No one is responsible under liberalism.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

Never accept the blame for what evil people do. We are all responsible for our own actions.

God holds his people responsible for righteousness, not for results.

If I have made a mistake in the design, then I'm the one who should pay for it. I certainly would not ask somebody else to fly a plane if I were afraid to do it myself.

There is no one that can share your responsibility. It it is your responsibility you must carry it on and you must be responsible for your actions. At the end of the day we all are being challenged, sooner or later, by our destiny. And it's up to us to make all the difference in this life. If not you, who else?