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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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

James, Cyril

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

Brown, Les

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

Browne, Harry

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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

11.

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Stein, Ben

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

Bach, Richard

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

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

Allen, R. C.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

18.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Moliere

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

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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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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George

27.

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

Tecumseh

28.

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

30.

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

Baluch, Joy

31.

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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Robertson, Walter S.

44.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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