Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

- Stoppard, Tom

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Maher, Bill

You have to do it yourself, no one else will do it for you. You must work out your own salvation.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Brecht, Bertolt

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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 must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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

Bach, Richard

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Shula, Don

25.

Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

27.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Didion, Joan

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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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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

43.

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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Massie, Allan

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Carlzon, Jan