Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Bach, Richard

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bach, Richard

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

Warhol, Andy

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brown, Les

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

Heckscher, August

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

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Maher, Bill

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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.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

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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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

Brown, Les

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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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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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

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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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