Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Aristotle

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

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

10.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

13.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Les

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

Milgram, Stanley

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

32.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

33.

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

Carlzon, Jan

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Winkler, Henry

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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

43.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

45.

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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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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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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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 walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand