Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Briscoe, Stuart

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Simmons, Joe

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

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Newman, Mildred

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Allen, R. C.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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

11.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Bible

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlzon, Jan

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Browne, Harry

43.

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

Brown, Les

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert