Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Each is responsible for his own actions.

- Hunt, H. L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Carlzon, Jan

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

Massie, Allan

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Browne, Harry

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Maher, Bill

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Waitley, Denis

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Warhol, Andy

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Waitley, Denis

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Tecumseh

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

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

Newman, Mildred