Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

James, Cyril

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Simmons, Joe

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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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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More power than all the success slogans ever penned by human hand is the realization for every man that he has but one boss. That boss is the man -- he -- himself.

Heatter, Gabriel

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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Link, Henry C.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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

Shula, Don

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Tecumseh

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

Aristotle