Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Moliere

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

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

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

Heckscher, August

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.

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

10.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

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

Maher, Bill

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Merton, Thomas

15.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

16.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

17.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

18.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

19.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

20.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Waitley, Denis

27.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

30.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

James, Cyril

34.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

35.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Robertson, Walter S.

37.

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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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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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

40.

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

Powell, John Enoch

43.

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

Winkler, Henry

45.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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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