Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- King, Billie Jean

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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 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

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

Massie, Allan

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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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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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Maher, Bill

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

Newman, Mildred

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Allen, R. C.

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Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

Stirner, Max

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon