Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Shula, Don

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

10.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

11.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

12.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

13.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

14.

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

Allen, R. C.

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

Massie, Allan

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.

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

Simmons, Joe

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

22.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

23.

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

24.

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

James, Cyril

25.

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

26.

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

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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

29.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

30.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

31.

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

32.

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

Powell, John Enoch

33.

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

King, Billie Jean

34.

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

Brown, Les

35.

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

Browne, Harry

36.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

37.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

38.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

39.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Bach, Richard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

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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.

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

47.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

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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