Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

- Heckscher, August

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Simmons, Joe

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Brecht, Bertolt

I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Winkler, 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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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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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

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

James, Cyril

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

Bible

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Browne, Harry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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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