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

19.

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

20.

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

Waitley, Denis

21.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

22.

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

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.

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

Didion, Joan

25.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Allen, R. C.

27.

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

29.

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

Baluch, Joy

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

James, Cyril

34.

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

35.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

36.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

37.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

38.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

39.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

40.

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

Heckscher, August

41.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

42.

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

43.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

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