Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Maher, Bill

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

From my tribe I take nothing I am the maker of my own fortune.

Tecumseh

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

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Ford, Henry

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

11.

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

Newman, Mildred

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Milgram, Stanley

19.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

20.

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

Allen, R. C.

21.

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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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

23.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Briscoe, Stuart

25.

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 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

27.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

Simmons, Joe

31.

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

Moliere

32.

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

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

Shula, Don

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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

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

Bach, Richard

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

40.

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

Waitley, Denis

43.

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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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.