Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bible

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Aristotle

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

Heckscher, August

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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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 shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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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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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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You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph