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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Allen, R. C.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

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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.

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Moliere

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Shula, Don

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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