Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

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

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

Bach, Richard

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brown, Les

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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 free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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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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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Maher, Bill

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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.

35.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Warhol, Andy

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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