Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Tecumseh

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

12.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Winkler, Henry

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Maher, Bill

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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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 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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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

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

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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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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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.