Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Heckscher, August

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Winkler, Henry

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Maher, Bill

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bach, Richard

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bible

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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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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

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

Warhol, Andy

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Shula, Don

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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