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

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

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Maher, Bill

No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Winkler, Henry

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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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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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 must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Waitley, Denis

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