Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Bible

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

Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Quayle, Dan

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Simmons, Joe

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Newman, Mildred

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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 disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Maher, Bill

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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