Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Briscoe, Stuart

10.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

11.

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

12.

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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

15.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Quayle, Dan

20.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

21.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Waitley, Denis

25.

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

26.

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

Brown, Les

27.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

31.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

33.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hill, Napoleon

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

40.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

41.

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

42.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bach, Richard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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