Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Bach, Richard

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Scott, Sir Walter

18.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Tecumseh

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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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

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Shula, Don

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Moliere

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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

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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