Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Brown, Les

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

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

James, Cyril

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Carlzon, Jan

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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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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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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 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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Maher, Bill

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

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

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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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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Bach, Richard

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Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Moliere

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Newman, Mildred