Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Responsibility

God, Private Enterprise and government have made me what I am, and now they have to take some of the blame.

Baluch, Joy

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

Carlzon, Jan

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

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

Massie, Allan

Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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

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

Heckscher, August

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

Shula, Don

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

Hill, Napoleon

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Browne, Harry

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Maher, Bill

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

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Johnson, Gerald W.

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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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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

43.

Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

44.

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

Newman, Mildred

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

48.

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

Allen, R. C.

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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony