Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Bach, Richard

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

James, Cyril

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

10.

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

Quayle, Dan

11.

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.

12.

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

Powell, John Enoch

13.

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

14.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

15.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

16.

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

17.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

18.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

19.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

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

Didion, Joan

22.

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

23.

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

Baluch, Joy

24.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

25.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Browne, Harry

29.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

30.

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

31.

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

Heckscher, August

32.

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

Massie, Allan

33.

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

Milgram, Stanley

34.

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

Simmons, Joe

35.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

36.

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

37.

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

38.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

39.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

40.

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

41.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

42.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

43.

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

Carlzon, Jan

44.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

45.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

46.

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

47.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Tecumseh

49.

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

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

Shula, Don