Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Brown, Les

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

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 will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Aristotle

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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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

11.

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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

14.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Browne, Harry

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

James, Cyril

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

Winkler, Henry

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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George

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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Didion, Joan

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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

Massie, Allan

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady