Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Forbes, Malcolm S.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

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

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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

11.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heckscher, August

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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

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

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

James, Cyril

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Moliere

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Rockefeller, John D.

40.

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

Warhol, Andy

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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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