Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Briscoe, Stuart

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

10.

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

Newman, Mildred

11.

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

12.

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

Winkler, Henry

13.

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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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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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

16.

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

Aristotle

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

19.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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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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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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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

30.

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

Tecumseh

31.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Maher, Bill

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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