Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Quayle, Dan

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

Massie, Allan

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Browne, Harry

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

Popplestone, Charles E.

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Winkler, Henry

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Allen, R. 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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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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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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.

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

Shula, Don

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

30.

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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Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Crane, Frank

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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

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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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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 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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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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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Rockefeller, John D.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Aristotle

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