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

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Tecumseh

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

James, Cyril

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Newman, Mildred

11.

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

Milgram, Stanley

12.

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

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

14.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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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.

19.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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

21.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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

25.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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

27.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

28.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bach, Richard

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

Shula, Don

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Browne, Harry

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Allen, R. C.

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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

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

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

Warhol, Andy

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

45.

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

Massie, Allan

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

48.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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