Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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

Massie, Allan

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

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

Warhol, Andy

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Heckscher, August

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

Waitley, Denis

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

11.

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Bach, Richard

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

Brown, Les

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

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

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Shula, Don

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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.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

33.

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

Allen, R. C.

34.

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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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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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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

41.

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Didion, Joan

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

Brecht, Bertolt