Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

- Hay, Louise L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Massie, Allan

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Tecumseh

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

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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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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 are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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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