Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

- Gandhi, Mahatma

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Brown, Les

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Massie, Allan

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bach, Richard

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Tecumseh

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Maher, Bill

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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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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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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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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

O'Neil, George