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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

11.

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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Milgram, Stanley

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

20.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Moliere

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

Tecumseh

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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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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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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine