Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bach, Richard

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

Bible

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Scott, Sir Walter

13.

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

Brown, Les

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

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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 alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brown, Les

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Maher, Bill

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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 are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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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

39.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.