Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

Best Quotes about Responsibility

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Accept the consequences of your actions in order to become the agent of your mental, physical, spiritual and material success.

Brown, Les

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

No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

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

Tecumseh

10.

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

11.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Massie, Allan

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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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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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One must care about a world one will not see.

Russell, Bertrand

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Nobody can do it for you.

Cordiner, Ralph

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

Carlzon, Jan

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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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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Shula, Don

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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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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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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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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Unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall much be required. [Luke 12:48]

Bible

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Trine, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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