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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

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.

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

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Shula, Don

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Browne, Harry

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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Aristotle

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Didion, Joan

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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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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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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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