Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Winkler, Henry

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Massie, Allan

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

10.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

11.

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

Carlzon, Jan

12.

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

Brown, Les

13.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

16.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

17.

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

Moliere

18.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

20.

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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

Winkler, Henry

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

31.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Heckscher, August

34.

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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

40.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

49.

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

Bach, Richard

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