Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Allen, R. C.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

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

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

21.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tecumseh

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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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

29.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shula, Don

31.

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

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

Browne, Harry

34.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Powell, John Enoch

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Warhol, Andy

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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