Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Allen, R. C.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

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

Warhol, Andy

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Moliere

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Tecumseh

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Browne, Harry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

41.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Maher, Bill

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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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