Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Bible

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Waitley, Denis

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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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

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Heckscher, August

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Bach, Richard

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Warhol, Andy