Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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

Tecumseh

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

10.

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

Waitley, Denis

11.

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

Massie, Allan

12.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

13.

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

14.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

18.

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

20.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

21.

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

Shula, Don

22.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

23.

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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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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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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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

Carlzon, Jan

28.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

34.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

35.

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

Newman, Mildred

39.

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

Quayle, Dan

40.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

43.

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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony