Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Didion, Joan

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bach, Richard

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

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Massie, Allan

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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

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

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

Moliere

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility. In the final analysis, the only quality that all successful people have is the ability to take on responsibility.

Korda, Michael

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Maher, Bill

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