Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Didion, Joan

The important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Newman, Mildred

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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.

11.

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

James, Cyril

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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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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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

Bach, Richard

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Les

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Maher, Bill

40.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.