Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Frankl, Viktor E.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Didion, Joan

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Carlzon, Jan

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Maher, Bill

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

12.

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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Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Heckscher, August

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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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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We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Browne, Harry

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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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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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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.