Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Good men prefer to be accountable.

- Edwardes, Michael

Best Quotes about Responsibility

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Warhol, Andy

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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 alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

James, Cyril

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Browne, Harry

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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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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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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

25.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

33.

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

Brown, Les

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Brown, Les

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Aristotle

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rockefeller, John D.

45.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Moliere

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic