Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Browne, Harry

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

Heckscher, August

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

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

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Brown, Les

10.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

11.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

16.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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

33.

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

Massie, Allan

34.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

38.

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

Tecumseh

39.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Robertson, Walter S.

43.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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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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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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

48.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.