Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Browne, Harry

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

James, Cyril

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

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

Newman, Mildred

10.

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

Bach, Richard

11.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Shula, Don

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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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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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I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

18.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Waitley, Denis

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

32.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

33.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bible

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From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Heckscher, August

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

49.

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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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel