Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

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

Tecumseh

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

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

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

Moliere

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

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

Browne, Harry

10.

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

Maher, Bill

11.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

15.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shula, Don

17.

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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

23.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

James, Cyril

25.

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

Newman, Mildred

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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

28.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

29.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

34.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

36.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

37.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

38.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aristotle

43.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. 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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

49.

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

50.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael