Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Heckscher, August

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brown, Les

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Moliere

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Didion, Joan

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

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

Bach, Richard

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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