Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Powell, John Enoch

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Tecumseh

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

Heckscher, August

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

Browne, Harry

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

Aristotle

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Massie, Allan

28.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

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

Quayle, Dan

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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

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

36.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

46.

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

Winkler, Henry

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady