Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Waitley, Denis

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

10.

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

11.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

12.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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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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

18.

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

19.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

20.

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.

21.

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

Warhol, Andy

22.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

23.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

24.

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

25.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

27.

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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Moliere

30.

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

Shula, Don

31.

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

Newman, Mildred

32.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

33.

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

Tecumseh

34.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

35.

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

36.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

38.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

39.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

40.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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

43.

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

Aristotle

45.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Brecht, Bertolt