Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

2.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

3.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

4.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

5.

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

6.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

7.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

8.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

9.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

10.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

11.

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

12.

We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

13.

Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

14.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

15.

Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Guthrie, Arlo

16.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

17.

The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

18.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

19.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

20.

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

21.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

22.

Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

23.

If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

24.

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

25.

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

26.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Bach, Richard

28.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

29.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

30.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

31.

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

32.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

34.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

35.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

36.

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

37.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

38.

Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

39.

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

40.

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

41.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.

Mack, Connie

42.

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Stein, Ben

43.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

44.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Simpson, O. J.

45.

Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

46.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

47.

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

48.

Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Korda, Michael

49.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

50.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril