Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Schweitzer, Albert

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Schweitzer, Albert

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

Brown, Les

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Shula, Don

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

Brown, Les

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Quayle, Dan

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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

32.

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Newman, Mildred

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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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