“Responsibility is the ability to respond.”

“Responsibility is the cornerstone of awakening. Essentially, what responsibility is, is owning your own life. To become responsible is to step into this ability and chose to both create and respond to your life instead of to passively react to it as if it is happening to you. It is stepping into authority over yourself.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

“Not responding is a response - we are equally responsible for what we don't do.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Eating Animals

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

Corrie ten Boom (1892–1983) Dutch resistance hero and writer

“When boys and men are told they are needed, they respond, and become responsible.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“A responsible leader is a person who is able to respond spontaneously to situations.”

Nithyananda (1978) Indian guru

“There is a general time period, cosmically determined, but the exact timing of such events depends on humanity’s readiness and ability to respond.”

Benjamin Creme (1922–2016) artist, author, esotericist

“Men's mind and abilities grow and expand with use of responsibilities.”

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. (1918–2007) American historian

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”

Dorothy Thompson (1893–1961) American journalist and radio broadcaster