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

Bach, Richard

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

Quayle, Dan

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

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Maher, Bill

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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

Carlzon, Jan

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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

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

Tecumseh

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

Heckscher, August

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Warhol, Andy

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

Allen, R. C.

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo