Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Simmons, Joe

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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

11.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Warhol, Andy

13.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Tecumseh

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

16.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

17.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Moliere

21.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

31.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Powell, John Enoch

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