Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

- Baluch, Joy

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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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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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Brown, Les

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

Winkler, Henry

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

33.

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

Tecumseh

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise 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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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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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Waitley, Denis

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander