Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

10.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

11.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

12.

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

13.

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

Warhol, Andy

14.

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

Massie, Allan

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

Shula, Don

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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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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

18.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

James, Cyril

21.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

22.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

24.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

25.

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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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

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

29.

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

Moliere

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

32.

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

Aristotle

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Heckscher, August

36.

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

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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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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

39.

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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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.

41.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

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

Winkler, Henry

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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.