Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Powell, John Enoch

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Strabo, Mikhail

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

James, Cyril

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

Bible

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

10.

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

11.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

12.

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

Newman, Mildred

13.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

15.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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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We have a Bill of rights. What we need is a Bill of responsibilities.

Maher, Bill

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Brown, Les

35.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

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

Bach, Richard

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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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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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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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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 ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.

Hunt, Roy L.

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

46.

A human being's first responsibility is to shake hands with himself.

Winkler, Henry

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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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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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