Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- James, Cyril

Best Quotes about Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

Brown, Les

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

10.

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

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

13.

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

14.

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

Warhol, Andy

15.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Bible

20.

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

Simmons, Joe

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

23.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

24.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

25.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

26.

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

Winkler, Henry

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

33.

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

Shula, Don

34.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

35.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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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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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

40.

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

Maher, Bill

41.

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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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

43.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

44.

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

48.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Briscoe, Stuart