Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Heckscher, August

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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

Heckscher, August

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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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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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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Bach, Richard

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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