Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

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

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

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

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

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

Waitley, Denis

10.

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

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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

12.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Shula, Don

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

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

Bible

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Rockefeller, John D.

31.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Tecumseh

33.

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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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Brown, Les

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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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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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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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