Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

Best Quotes about Responsibility

No man was ever endowed with a right without being at the same time saddled with a responsibility.

Johnson, Gerald W.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Didion, Joan

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Life's heaviest burden is to have nothing to carry.

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

Brown, Les

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

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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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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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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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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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Depree, Max

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bach, Richard

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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 know that no one can really stop me but myself and that really no one can help me but myself.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Powell, John Enoch

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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

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

Briscoe, Stuart