Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Accountability breeds response-ability.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Robertson, Walter S.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Allen, R. C.

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

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

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Heckscher, August

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Massie, Allan

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Shula, Don

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

Brown, Les

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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