Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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.

Ford, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Browne, Harry

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Brown, Les

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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.

Crane, Frank

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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Waitley, Denis

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

James, Cyril

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Shula, Don

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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