Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

In dreams begin responsibility.

- Yeats, William Butler

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

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

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

Milgram, Stanley

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Tracy, Brian

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Newman, Mildred

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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

Simpson, O. J.

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

James, Cyril

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Tecumseh

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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

Massie, Allan

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hunt, Roy L.