Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Strabo, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

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

Brown, Les

2.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

3.

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

Simmons, Joe

4.

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

Waitley, Denis

5.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

9.

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

10.

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

Winkler, Henry

11.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

15.

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

Massie, Allan

16.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

17.

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

18.

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.

19.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

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

Newman, Mildred

22.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

23.

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

24.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

25.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

26.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

27.

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

Powell, John Enoch

28.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

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

Heckscher, August

30.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

31.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

32.

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

Milgram, Stanley

33.

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

34.

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

Browne, Harry

35.

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

Baluch, Joy

36.

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

Didion, Joan

37.

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

Brown, Les

38.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

39.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

40.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

41.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

42.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

43.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

44.

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

Moliere

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

48.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

49.

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