Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

James, Cyril

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

Aristotle

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Heckscher, August

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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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

11.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

12.

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Brown, Les

13.

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

Allen, R. C.

14.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bible

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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

24.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

King, Billie Jean

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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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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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 take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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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

42.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Massie, Allan

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Browne, Harry