Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Hunt, Roy L.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Bible

14.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

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

Tecumseh

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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 word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Shula, Don

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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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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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You must choose the thoughts and actions that will lead you on to success.

Allen, R. C.

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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

Didion, Joan

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Newman, Mildred

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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