Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heckscher, August

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

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

Moliere

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

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

Shula, Don

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

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

Tecumseh

15.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

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

17.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

18.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

19.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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.

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

Massie, Allan

22.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

23.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

24.

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

25.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

28.

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

Baluch, Joy

29.

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

30.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

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

Browne, Harry

32.

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

Quayle, Dan

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

38.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

39.

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

40.

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

Newman, Mildred

41.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

42.

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

43.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

44.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

45.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

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

48.

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

Carlzon, Jan

49.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

50.

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