Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Maher, Bill

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Browne, Harry

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Rockefeller, John D.

10.

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

James, Cyril

11.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Waitley, Denis

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The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

18.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Heckscher, August

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

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Newman, Mildred

39.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

40.

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

41.

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

Tecumseh

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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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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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A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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