Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Each is responsible for his own actions.

- Hunt, H. L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

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

10.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

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

Allen, R. C.

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

21.

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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Warhol, Andy

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

28.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Shula, Don

31.

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

Brown, Les

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

33.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

35.

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

Massie, Allan

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

Tecumseh

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

Didion, Joan

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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

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Carlzon, Jan

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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