Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Allen, R. C.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Warhol, Andy

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

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

Shula, Don

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

James, Cyril

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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Tecumseh

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

Brown, Les

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. 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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Bible

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

King, Billie Jean

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.