Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Each is responsible for his own actions.

- Hunt, H. L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Shula, Don

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

James, Cyril

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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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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 one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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 was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Brown, Les

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

Winkler, Henry

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Bach, Richard

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Brown, Les

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Didion, Joan

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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