Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

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

Moliere

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Maher, Bill

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

Bible

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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.

Hunt, Roy L.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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

34.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Tecumseh

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Shula, Don

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Winkler, Henry

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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

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Newman, Mildred

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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