Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Simmons, Joe

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

11.

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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Bible

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Shula, Don

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Moliere

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Stirner, Max

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maher, Bill