Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Strabo, Mikhail

You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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

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

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

Brown, Les

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Baluch, Joy

10.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

24.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

25.

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

Moliere

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

32.

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Bach, Richard

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

48.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

49.

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

50.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander