Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

- Cordiner, Ralph

Best Quotes about Responsibility

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Massie, Allan

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Browne, Harry

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.

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

Warhol, Andy

12.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

13.

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

James, Cyril

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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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

18.

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

19.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

23.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

25.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

27.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

28.

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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

33.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

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

Shula, Don

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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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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 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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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

41.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

43.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

44.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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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

48.

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

Aristotle

49.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

50.

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