Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maher, Bill

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

Simmons, Joe

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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 individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brown, Les

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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 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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Tecumseh

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bible

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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 will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Rockefeller, John D.