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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Massie, Allan

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

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

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

Browne, Harry

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Brown, Les

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

19.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Aristotle

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

Heckscher, August

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

Maher, Bill

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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 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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Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

James, Cyril

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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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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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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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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