Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Newman, Mildred

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Aristotle

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

James, Cyril

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bible

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

31.

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

Brown, Les

33.

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

Shula, Don

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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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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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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 don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

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

Bach, Richard

41.

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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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Waitley, Denis

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph