Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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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 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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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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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Tecumseh

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Massie, Allan

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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 must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand