Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Good men prefer to be accountable.

- Edwardes, Michael

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Maher, Bill

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Aristotle

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

Shula, Don

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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 ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

Tecumseh

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

Waitley, Denis

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Massie, Allan

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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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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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