Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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

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

Shula, Don

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

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

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 what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Brown, Les

10.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Moliere

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

18.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Bach, Richard

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

27.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

28.

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

29.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Tecumseh

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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

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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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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Massie, Allan

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

James, Cyril

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

Brown, Les

45.

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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler