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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

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.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Responsibility educates.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

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.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

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.

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

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

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

The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

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.

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

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

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

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

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