Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Allen, R. C.

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Browne, Harry

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

Brown, Les

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Warhol, Andy

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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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Bach, Richard

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Guthrie, Arlo

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Maher, Bill

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Shula, Don

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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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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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