Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Maher, Bill

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Massie, Allan

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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A man carries his success or his failure with him, it does not depend on outside conditions.

Trine, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

25.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Tecumseh

33.

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

Brown, Les

34.

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

Didion, Joan

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

Bible

38.

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

Allen, R. C.

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Brown, Les

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The way to avoid responsibility is to say, I've got responsibilities.

Bach, Richard

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Hill, Napoleon

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas