Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

2.

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

Winkler, Henry

3.

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

Tecumseh

4.

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

James, Cyril

5.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

6.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

7.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

8.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

9.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

10.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

11.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

12.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

13.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

14.

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

Allen, R. C.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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.

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

Aristotle

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.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

23.

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

Bach, Richard

24.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

25.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

26.

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

27.

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

Moliere

28.

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

Heckscher, August

29.

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

Carlzon, Jan

30.

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.

31.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

32.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

33.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

34.

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

Hill, Napoleon

35.

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

36.

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

Browne, Harry

37.

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

38.

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

Brown, Les

39.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

40.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

44.

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

45.

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

Brown, Les

46.

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

Baluch, Joy

47.

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

48.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

49.

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

Brown, Les

50.

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