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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Rockefeller, John D.

10.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

11.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

12.

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

13.

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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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

17.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

18.

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

Tecumseh

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Briscoe, Stuart

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Baluch, Joy

25.

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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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

27.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

28.

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

Shula, Don

29.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

32.

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

Moliere

34.

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

35.

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

36.

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

Aristotle

38.

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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Warhol, Andy

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

45.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

46.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Bible

48.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Allen, R. C.