Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Warhol, Andy

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Browne, Harry

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tecumseh

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

Bach, Richard

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

Shula, Don

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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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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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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

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

Maher, Bill

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.