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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Shula, Don

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Aristotle

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Tecumseh

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

Didion, Joan

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Bible

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Browne, Harry

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No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.