Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Brown, Les

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Moliere

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

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

James, Cyril

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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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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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Maher, Bill

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shula, Don

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

Aristotle

35.

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

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

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Heckscher, August

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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 responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.