Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Massie, Allan

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Shula, Don

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

James, Cyril

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

12.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Moliere

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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.

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

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Tecumseh

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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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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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 accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.