Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

- Orwell, George

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Milgram, Stanley

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Browne, Harry

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Moliere

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Didion, Joan

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.

Powell, John Enoch

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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 improve your lot if you do not yourself.

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Tecumseh

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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