Being responsible means being dependable and making good choices. It involves accepting accountability for one's actions and their consequences. Responsible individuals pursue excellence through diligence, perseverance, and continuous self-improvement. They think before acting, are reliable, and strive to set a good example for others.

1. Character Trait
Responsibility

2. Responsibility Definition:
Being dependable and
making good choices.
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3. Privilege,
Comes
Responsibility

4. Responsibility Quote
The willingness to
accept responsibility for
one’s own life is the
source from which self-
respect springs.
-Joan Didion

5. Responsibility Quote
If you take responsibility
for yourself you will
develop a hunger to
accomplish your dreams.
-Les Brown

6. Responsibility Quote
The price of greatness is
responsibility.
-Sir Winston Churchill

7. Responsibility Quote
We are accountable only
to ourselves for what
happens in our lives.
-Mildred Newman

8. Responsibility Example
 Responsible
people are
accountable,
pursue excellence,
and exercise self-
control.

9. Accountable Example
 Accepting the
blame or credit for
one’s choices or
behaviors.

10. An accountable person
thinks before acting, is
reliable, and accepts
responsibility for the
consequences of his/her
choices

11. An accountable
person doesn’t
make excuses, or
blame others for
mistakes
personally made.

12. An accountable person
sets a good example for
others to look up to.

13. Pursue Excellence:
exhibiting diligence,
perseverance, and
striving for continuous
improvement.

14. Excellence Example
 A person pursuing
excellence does
his/her best at all
times, being
careful, prepared,
and informed.

15. A person pursuing
excellence finishes what
he/she starts and doesn’t
give up easily.

16. A person pursuing
excellence takes the
responsibility of looking
for ways to improve
his/her work.

17. A person pursuing
excellence doesn’t
surrender to obstacles or
excuses, instead
overcoming them.

18. Responsibility Words
 Accountable  Excellence
 Dependable  Prepared
 Reliable  Informed
 Honest  Acceptance
 Trustworthy

19. The Wolf and the
Crane

20. A Wolf had been gorging on an animal he had killed, when suddenly a small
bone in the meat stuck in his throat and he could not swallow it. He soon felt
terrible pain in his throat, and ran up and down groaning and groaning and
seeking for something to relieve the pain. He tried to induce every one he
met to remove the bone. "I would give anything," said he, "if you would take
it out." At last the Crane agreed to try, and told the Wolf to lie on his side
and open his jaws as wide as he could. Then the Crane put its long neck
down the Wolf's throat, and with its beak loosened the bone, till at last it got
it out.
"Will you kindly give me the reward you promised?" said the Crane.
The Wolf grinned and showed his teeth and said: "Be content. You have put
your head inside a Wolf's mouth and taken it out again in safety; that ought
to be reward enough for you."

21. Discussion Questions
for “The Wolf and the
Crane.”
1. Did the crane consider
the consequences of her
actions?

22. Discussion Questions
for “The Wolf and the
Crane.”
2. Have you ever done
something, then realized
afterwards that you were
fortunate to be unharmed
by the consequences?

23. Discussion Questions
for “The Wolf and the
Crane.”
3. When you do something
without thinking about the
consequences, such as
breaking a family rule, do
you usually accept the
consequences willingly?

24. Discussion Questions
for “The Wolf and the
Crane.”
4. Is it good to understand
actions and consequences
at a young age?

25. Discussion Questions
for “The Wolf and the
Crane.”
5. Why do our decisions
and actions have
consequences?

26. Responsibility Quote
Good men prefer to be
accountable.
-Michael Edwardes

27. Responsibility Quote
You can’t escape the
responsibility of
tomorrow by evading it
today.
-Abraham Lincoln