Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Responsibility

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

Scott, Sir Walter

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

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

10.

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.

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

12.

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

Simmons, Joe

13.

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

14.

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

15.

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

Heckscher, August

16.

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

Newman, Mildred

17.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

18.

Psychologically I should say that a person becomes an adult at the point when he produces more than he consumes or earns more than he spends. This may be a the age of eighteen, twenty-five, or thirty-five. Some people remain unproductive and dependent children forever and therefore intellectually and emotionally immature.

Link, Henry C.

19.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

20.

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

Maher, Bill

21.

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

Allen, R. C.

22.

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

23.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

24.

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

Tecumseh

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

Milgram, Stanley

27.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

29.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

30.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

31.

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

32.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

35.

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

Aristotle

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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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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

39.

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

Brown, Les

40.

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

King, Billie Jean

41.

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

42.

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

Powell, John Enoch

43.

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

Hill, Napoleon

44.

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

45.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Bach, Richard

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

James, Cyril

48.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.