Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Moliere

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us. I have long since learned that we are responsible only for the way we treat people.

Lane, Rose Wilder

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Baluch, Joy

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Massie, Allan

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

Shula, Don

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

Tecumseh

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Warhol, Andy

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