“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.”
“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
“Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.”
“God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.”
“Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.”
“I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.”
“I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.”
“All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.”
“When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.”
“The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.”
“Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.”
“An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.”
“Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.”
“The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them.”
“As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is up to us.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”