Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

King, Billie Jean

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Brown, Les

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

17.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

18.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

25.

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

Shula, Don

26.

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

James, Cyril

27.

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

28.

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

29.

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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

32.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

40.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Tecumseh

43.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Didion, Joan

45.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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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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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry