Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

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Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

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

Maher, Bill

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

Winkler, Henry

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

Frankl, Viktor 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

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.

Quayle, Dan

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

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.

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

Scott, Sir Walter

10.

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

11.

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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A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his liberties.

James, Cyril

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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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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Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

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No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it.

Aristotle

18.

The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

19.

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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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

Rockefeller, John D.

21.

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

Bible

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

23.

Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Carlzon, Jan

25.

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

27.

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

Browne, Harry

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Bach, Richard

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It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do for which we are accountable.

Moliere

32.

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Tecumseh

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Milgram, Stanley

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Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will -- his personal responsibility.

Schweitzer, Albert

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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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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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

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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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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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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In dreams begin responsibility.

Yeats, William Butler