Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

James, Cyril

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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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

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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

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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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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

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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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

Aristotle

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

Tecumseh

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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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.

Heatter, Gabriel

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

Heckscher, August

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Didion, Joan

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Massie, Allan

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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

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Simpson, O. J.

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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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

Lane, Rose Wilder

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

Browne, Harry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael