Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

One must care about a world one will not see.

- Russell, Bertrand

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Scott, Sir Walter

In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Brown, Les

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

Aristotle

An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.

Carlzon, Jan

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

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brown, Les

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

11.

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

12.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

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

Strabo, Mikhail

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

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Allen, R. C.

18.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

19.

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

Maher, Bill

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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

21.

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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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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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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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Freedom is a package deal -- with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

28.

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

Browne, Harry

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

30.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

31.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Shula, Don

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Men must necessarily be the active agents of their own well-being and well-doing... they themselves must in the very nature of things be their own best helpers.

Smiles, Samuel

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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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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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

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

Massie, Allan

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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

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

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Robertson, Walter S.

50.

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