Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Allen, R. C.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Moliere

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

Heckscher, August

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Tecumseh

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Rockefeller, John D.

25.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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 willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Didion, Joan

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

Maher, Bill

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Bach, Richard

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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 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.