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

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Tecumseh

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

Heckscher, August

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Waitley, Denis

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Brown, Les

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Maher, Bill

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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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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

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

Bach, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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