Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Briscoe, Stuart

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Heckscher, August

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Brown, Les

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Milgram, Stanley

10.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Aristotle

12.

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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Mills, Darius Ogden

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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

31.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

32.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

34.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Tecumseh

36.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Maher, Bill

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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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Bach, Richard

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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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