Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Newman, Mildred

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Strabo, Mikhail

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Briscoe, Stuart

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

10.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

11.

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

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

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

Quayle, Dan

14.

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

Bible

15.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

16.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

17.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

18.

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

James, Cyril

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

22.

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

23.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

24.

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

Brown, Les

25.

More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself.

Heatter, Gabriel

26.

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

27.

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

28.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

33.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

34.

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

35.

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

36.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

37.

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

Maher, Bill

38.

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

39.

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

Powell, John Enoch

40.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

41.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

42.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

43.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

44.

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

Allen, R. C.

45.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

46.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

47.

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

Heckscher, August

48.

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

49.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

50.

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

Aristotle