Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

- O'Neil, George

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

2.

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

3.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

4.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

5.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

6.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

7.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

8.

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

Didion, Joan

9.

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

James, Cyril

10.

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

Tecumseh

11.

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

Milgram, Stanley

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

13.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

16.

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

Baluch, Joy

17.

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

18.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Aristotle

23.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

24.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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

Brown, Les

26.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

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

Heckscher, August

28.

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

29.

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

Newman, Mildred

30.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

34.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

35.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

36.

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

Shula, Don

37.

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

38.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

39.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

44.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

45.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.