Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Baluch, Joy

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Moliere

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Tecumseh

11.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

12.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

22.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Robertson, Walter S.

26.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

33.

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

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

Massie, Allan

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

Waitley, Denis

46.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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