Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Shula, Don

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Browne, Harry

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

Quayle, Dan

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Waitley, Denis

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Maher, Bill

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

Moliere

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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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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The only way to get rid of responsibilities is to discharge them.

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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