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

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Bach, Richard

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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.

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

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tecumseh

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

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Maher, Bill

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph