Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Accountability breeds response-ability.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Bible

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tecumseh

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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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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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 each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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 important thing is to concentrate upon what you can do -- by yourself, upon your own initiative.

Browne, Harry

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

Winkler, Henry

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Warhol, Andy

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

James, Cyril

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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