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

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

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

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Newman, Mildred

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Moliere

I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Brown, Les

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Browne, Harry

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Massie, Allan

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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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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