Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

Milgram, Stanley

11.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

12.

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

Tecumseh

13.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

14.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Warhol, Andy

16.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

17.

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

Carlzon, Jan

18.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

19.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

20.

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

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

22.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

23.

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.

24.

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

James, Cyril

25.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

26.

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

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

28.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

32.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

36.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

37.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

38.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

39.

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

40.

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

Baluch, Joy

41.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

42.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

Quayle, Dan

45.

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

Powell, John Enoch

46.

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

Brown, Les

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Browne, Harry