Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

I don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

- Simmons, Joe

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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

Browne, Harry

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

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

Waitley, Denis

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Moliere

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

Massie, Allan

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

James, Cyril

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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 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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Warhol, Andy

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Shula, Don

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

Bach, Richard

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Brown, Les