Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Milgram, Stanley

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Moliere

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Allen, R. C.

11.

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

Tecumseh

12.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

15.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Bach, Richard

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Maher, Bill

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

Newman, Mildred

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Bible

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

40.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle