Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

12.

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

Waitley, Denis

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Warhol, Andy

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Tecumseh

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

39.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

41.

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

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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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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Waitley, Denis

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand