Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

10.

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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I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.

Mills, Darius Ogden

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

14.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Newman, Mildred

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bible

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Rockefeller, John D.

22.

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

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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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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

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Powell, John Enoch

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

James, Cyril

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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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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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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I know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

41.

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

42.

One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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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

44.

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

Aristotle

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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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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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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