Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Brown, Les

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

10.

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.

11.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

12.

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

13.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Massie, Allan

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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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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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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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

Winkler, Henry

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, Les

25.

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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Tecumseh

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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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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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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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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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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