Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Baluch, Joy

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

12.

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

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bible

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

Winkler, Henry

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Shula, Don

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Simmons, Joe