Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Warhol, Andy

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

James, Cyril

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

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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 burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Tecumseh

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

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Maher, Bill

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Massie, Allan

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

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

Heckscher, August

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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