Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Strabo, Mikhail

Best Quotes about Responsibility

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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

Warhol, Andy

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

11.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Waitley, Denis

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Shula, Don

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Aristotle

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.