Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Hunt, Roy L.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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

11.

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

12.

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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

19.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Maher, Bill

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

32.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

34.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

35.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

40.

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

Aristotle

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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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Bible

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

Heckscher, August

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

Johnson, Gerald W.