Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Newman, Mildred

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

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

10.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

15.

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

Allen, R. C.

16.

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

Maher, Bill

17.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

18.

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

19.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

20.

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

Tecumseh

21.

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

22.

To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

23.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

24.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Hill, Napoleon

29.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

30.

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

Warhol, Andy

31.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

32.

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

Moliere

33.

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

34.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

35.

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

36.

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

Shula, Don

37.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Bach, Richard

39.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

40.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

41.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

42.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

43.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

44.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Massie, Allan

50.

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.