Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Hunt, Roy L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Bible

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Newman, Mildred

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

11.

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

Powell, John Enoch

12.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

13.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

14.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

21.

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

25.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

30.

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

Tecumseh

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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 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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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