Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

- Johnson, Gerald W.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Waitley, Denis

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Tecumseh

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

Bach, Richard

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

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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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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aristotle

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander