Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Browne, Harry

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Tecumseh

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

Heckscher, August

11.

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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We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Brown, Les

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Didion, Joan

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

41.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maher, Bill

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

Aristotle

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les