Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Winkler, Henry

Best Quotes about Responsibility

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Heckscher, August

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

James, Cyril

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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 what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George