Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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

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

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Didion, Joan

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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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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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

Shula, Don

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bible

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Tecumseh

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

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

35.

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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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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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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

41.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

46.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand