Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Nothing happens by itself. It all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.

Stein, Ben

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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 ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

10.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

11.

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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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

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

18.

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

Browne, Harry

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

24.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Moliere

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

Bible

32.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

43.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don