Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Aristotle

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

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

10.

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

Massie, Allan

11.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Allen, R. C.

20.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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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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Everyone has a responsibility to not only tolerate another person's point of view, but also to accept it eagerly as a challenge to your own understanding. And express those challenges in terms of serving other people.

Guthrie, Arlo

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

James, Cyril

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

Maher, Bill

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

Brown, Les

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Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les