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

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

Winkler, Henry

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Maher, Bill

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter