Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

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

Shula, Don

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

Maher, Bill

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

Bible

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

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

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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We are accountable only to ourselves for what happens to us in our lives.

Newman, Mildred

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Winkler, Henry

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

34.

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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Massie, Allan

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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Korda, Michael

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

Bach, Richard

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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