Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Hill, Napoleon

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Brown, Les

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Winkler, Henry

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Maher, Bill

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Shula, Don

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

Forbes, Malcolm S.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Tecumseh

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

Milgram, Stanley

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Newman, Mildred

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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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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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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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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George