Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bach, Richard

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Newman, Mildred

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

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

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Bible

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Tecumseh

39.

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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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Maher, Bill

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo