Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

- Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Best Quotes about Responsibility

I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself.

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Bible

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

King, Billie Jean

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

Milgram, Stanley

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

20.

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

Simmons, Joe

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Brown, Les

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

Carlzon, Jan

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

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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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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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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 man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

45.

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

Tecumseh

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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

48.

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

Shula, Don

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

Maher, Bill

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston