Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Powell, John Enoch

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

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.

2.

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

Aristotle

3.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

4.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

5.

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

6.

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

7.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

8.

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

9.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

10.

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

11.

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

Milgram, Stanley

12.

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

Bach, Richard

13.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

14.

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

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

17.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Winkler, Henry

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Didion, Joan

23.

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

Simmons, Joe

24.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

25.

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

Allen, R. C.

26.

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

Heckscher, August

27.

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

28.

We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

29.

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

30.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

31.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

32.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

33.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

34.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

35.

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

36.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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.

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

Massie, Allan

39.

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

40.

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

41.

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere