Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Milgram, Stanley

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Brown, Les

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

No one will improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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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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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Didion, Joan

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Browne, Harry

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Bible

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Tecumseh

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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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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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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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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