Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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.

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

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

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

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

Massie, Allan

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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 dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

15.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

16.

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

17.

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

Hill, Napoleon

18.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

19.

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

Bible

20.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

21.

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

Moliere

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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

24.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

25.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

26.

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

Tecumseh

27.

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

28.

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

Browne, Harry

29.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

30.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

31.

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

32.

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

Baluch, Joy

33.

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

Newman, Mildred

34.

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

Waitley, Denis

35.

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

Bach, Richard

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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

37.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

38.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

39.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

40.

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

Shula, Don

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Carlzon, Jan

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.