Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Bible

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

10.

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

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Baluch, Joy

12.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

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

Heckscher, August

17.

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

Shula, Don

18.

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

19.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

20.

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

Tecumseh

21.

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

22.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

27.

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

Newman, Mildred

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

31.

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

Browne, Harry

32.

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

Massie, Allan

33.

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

Quayle, Dan

34.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

35.

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

Allen, R. C.

36.

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

37.

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

Didion, Joan

38.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

39.

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

Brown, Les

40.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

41.

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

Brown, Les

42.

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

43.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

44.

Link, Henry C.

45.

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

46.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

47.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

48.

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

Waitley, Denis

49.

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

50.

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