Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Bach, Richard

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

Rohn, Jim

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

Brown, Les

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with -- a man is what he makes of himself.

Bell, Alexander Graham

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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Winkler, Henry

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Be more aware of responsibility than you are of your rights.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Aristotle

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

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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

27.

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

Newman, Mildred

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Bible

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

Maher, Bill

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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

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

39.

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

Browne, Harry

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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

43.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

44.

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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