Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

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

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Winkler, Henry

12.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Newman, Mildred

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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

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

Maher, Bill

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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

Aristotle

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Massie, Allan

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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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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brown, Les

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

Heckscher, August

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

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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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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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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