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

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

Brown, Les

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Brown, Les

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Brown, Les

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Moliere

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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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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Bach, Richard

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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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 must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

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

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

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Shula, Don

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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

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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

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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

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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