Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Powell, John Enoch

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Bach, Richard

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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If people concentrated on their responsibilities, others would have their rights.

Briscoe, Stuart

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Heckscher, August

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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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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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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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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The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Bible

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

Massie, Allan

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Allen, R. C.

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You take on the responsibility for making your dream a reality.

Brown, Les

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

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

Powell, John Enoch

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Browne, Harry

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.