Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Robertson, Walter S.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Winkler, Henry

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

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Newman, Mildred

11.

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.

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

15.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

16.

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

Milgram, Stanley

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

20.

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

21.

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

Allen, R. C.

22.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

23.

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

24.

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

Heckscher, August

25.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

26.

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

Aristotle

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.

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

29.

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

Browne, Harry

30.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

31.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

32.

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

33.

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.

34.

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

Quayle, Dan

35.

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

Bach, Richard

36.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

44.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

45.

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

Shula, Don

46.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

47.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

48.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

49.

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

Hill, Napoleon

50.

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