Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Brown, Les

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

Newman, Mildred

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

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

Massie, Allan

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have ? life itself.

Anderson, Walter

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

Warhol, Andy

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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.

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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Aristotle

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael