Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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

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.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

10.

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

11.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

12.

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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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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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

15.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

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

19.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

20.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Hill, Napoleon

23.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

24.

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

25.

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

Massie, Allan

26.

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

Warhol, Andy

27.

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

29.

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

Bach, Richard

30.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

32.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

33.

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

Browne, Harry

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

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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 walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

38.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

41.

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

Winkler, Henry

42.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.