Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brecht, Bertolt

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

King, Billie Jean

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

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Bible

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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