Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Hunt, Roy L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

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

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

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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 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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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.

18.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

33.

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

Allen, R. C.

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Shula, Don

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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

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

Brown, Les

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

Aristotle

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Browne, Harry

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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 walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert