Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Hill, Napoleon

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

11.

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

Tecumseh

12.

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

Browne, Harry

13.

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

Massie, Allan

14.

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

15.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Maher, Bill

18.

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

Allen, R. C.

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

25.

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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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

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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

28.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Moliere

32.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

34.

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

35.

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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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Newman, Mildred

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian

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

Aristotle