Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

Newman, Mildred

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

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

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Bach, Richard

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

10.

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

Brown, Les

11.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

12.

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

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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Bible

19.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

21.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

23.

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

Brown, Les

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Warhol, Andy

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Allen, R. C.

41.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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 was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden