Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Accountability breeds response-ability.

- Covey, Stephen R.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Bach, Richard

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

Heckscher, August

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

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

Carlzon, Jan

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility.

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Brown, Les

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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 disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Maher, Bill

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Tecumseh

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

Waitley, Denis

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

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

Bible

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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