Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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

Allen, R. C.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Heckscher, August

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

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Moliere

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

James, Cyril

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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One must care about a world one will not see.