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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Shula, Don

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

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Warhol, Andy

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

11.

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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Bach, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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

Aristotle

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

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.

25.

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

Bible

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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

Massie, Allan

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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

James, Cyril

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Maher, Bill

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