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

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.

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aristotle

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brown, Les

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

14.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Tecumseh

22.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Massie, Allan

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Brown, Les

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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

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

Winkler, Henry

35.

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

James, Cyril

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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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.