Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Responsibility

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Bach, Richard

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

10.

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

11.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

12.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

13.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

14.

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

Quayle, Dan

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

James, Cyril

16.

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

17.

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

Shula, Don

18.

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

Baluch, Joy

19.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

21.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Moliere

24.

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

25.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Browne, Harry

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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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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 are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Winkler, Henry

39.

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

Waitley, Denis

40.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Allen, R. C.

43.

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

Brown, Les

45.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

46.

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

Brown, Les

49.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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