Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Newman, Mildred

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Brecht, Bertolt

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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 individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Aristotle

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

Tecumseh

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

Maher, Bill

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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