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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

10.

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

Aristotle

11.

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

Newman, Mildred

12.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

13.

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

Waitley, Denis

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Bible

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

Shula, Don

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Didion, Joan

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

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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 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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

41.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Waitley, Denis

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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.