Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Brown, Les

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aristotle

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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 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

10.

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.

11.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

12.

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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Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

14.

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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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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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

17.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Baluch, Joy

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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Simmons, Joe

36.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Heckscher, August

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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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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You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.