Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

2.

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

3.

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

Bible

4.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

5.

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

Bach, Richard

6.

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

7.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

8.

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

Maher, Bill

9.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

10.

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George

11.

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

Tecumseh

12.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

13.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

14.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

15.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Stirner, Max

16.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

17.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

18.

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

19.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

21.

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

22.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

23.

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

24.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

25.

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

Quayle, Dan

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

30.

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

Massie, Allan

31.

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

Winkler, Henry

32.

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

Moliere

33.

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

34.

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

Baluch, Joy

35.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

36.

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

37.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

38.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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.

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

Brown, Les

41.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

43.

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

44.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

45.

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

Shula, Don

46.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

47.

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