Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Didion, Joan

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

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to asses the road which lie ahead and those over which we have traveled, and if the feature road looms ominous or unpromising, and the road back uninviting-inviting, then we need to gather our resolve and carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that one as well.

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

Massie, Allan

Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Brown, Les

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

Waitley, Denis

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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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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Those who enjoy responsibility usually get it; those who merely like exercising authority usually lose it.

Forbes, Malcolm S.

14.

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Brown, Les

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Shula, Don

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

King, Billie Jean

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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I am responsible for everything except for my very responsibility, for I am not the foundation of my being. Therefore everything takes place as if I were compelled to be responsible. I am abandoned in the world... in the sense that I find myself suddenly alone and without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Milgram, Stanley

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Bach, Richard

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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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An individual without information can't take responsibility. An individual with information can't help but take responsibility.