Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Brown, Les

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

Maher, Bill

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

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Heckscher, August

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

Massie, Allan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Carlzon, Jan

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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To be a man is to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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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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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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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