Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Newman, Mildred

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

King, Billie Jean

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

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

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

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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 are each responsible for all of our experiences.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Massie, Allan

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Bible

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Didion, Joan

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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 don't remember, I didn't do it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it

Simmons, Joe

33.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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 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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Waitley, Denis

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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