Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Rockefeller, John D.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Shula, Don

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Bible

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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.

11.

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

Robertson, Walter S.

12.

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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To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

14.

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

15.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

18.

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

19.

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

Waitley, Denis

20.

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

Browne, Harry

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

23.

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Brown, Les

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Aristotle

37.

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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

40.

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.

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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

44.

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

Maher, Bill

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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Schweitzer, Albert