Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Bible

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

James, Cyril

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Scott, Sir Walter

10.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Aristotle

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

Tecumseh

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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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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We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Reagan, Ronald

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Brown, Les

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Shula, Don

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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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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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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