Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

2.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

3.

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

4.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

5.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

6.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

7.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

8.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

9.

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

10.

Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

11.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas

12.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

13.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

14.

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.

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

Shula, Don

17.

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

18.

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

Baluch, Joy

19.

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

Hill, Napoleon

20.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

21.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

22.

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

James, Cyril

23.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

27.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

28.

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

29.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

30.

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

31.

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Depree, Max

32.

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

33.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

34.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

36.

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

37.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

38.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Reagan, Ronald

39.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

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

Newman, Mildred

41.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

42.

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

43.

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

44.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

45.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

46.

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

Moliere

47.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian

48.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

49.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

50.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler