Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Browne, Harry

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

Bible

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

Aristotle

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

10.

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

Simmons, Joe

11.

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

Moliere

12.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

13.

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

Heckscher, August

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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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

18.

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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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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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

28.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Winkler, Henry

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

31.

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

33.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

34.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Tecumseh

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bach, Richard