Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Responsibility

1.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

2.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

3.

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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

7.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

8.

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

Brown, Les

9.

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

Massie, Allan

10.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Aristotle

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

17.

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

James, Cyril

18.

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

Carlzon, Jan

19.

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

Browne, Harry

21.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

28.

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

29.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

30.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

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

Shula, Don

32.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

34.

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

35.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Didion, Joan

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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

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

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

Winkler, Henry

42.

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

43.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

44.

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.