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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Massie, Allan

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Tecumseh

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Aristotle

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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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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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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Link, Henry C.

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maher, Bill

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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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