Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Tecumseh

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

Massie, Allan

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

10.

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

11.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

12.

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

Milgram, Stanley

13.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

14.

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

Winkler, Henry

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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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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

18.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

19.

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

Warhol, Andy

20.

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

21.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

22.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

23.

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

24.

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

25.

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

Baluch, Joy

26.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

27.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

28.

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

29.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

30.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

31.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

32.

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

33.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

34.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

36.

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

Quayle, Dan

37.

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

Heckscher, August

38.

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

39.

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

Simmons, Joe

40.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

41.

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

Browne, Harry

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

James, Cyril

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

Bible

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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 individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

49.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

50.

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