Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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

Baluch, Joy

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bach, Richard

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

Aristotle

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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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