Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Allen, R. C.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Maher, Bill

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

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

Tecumseh

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.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Shula, Don

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

10.

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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Carlzon, Jan

18.

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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Bach, Richard

27.

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

Browne, Harry

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

29.

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

Massie, Allan

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

34.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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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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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

King, Billie Jean

46.

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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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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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand