Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Bach, Richard

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

Stoppard, Tom

Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else.

Brown, Les

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.

In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.

Merton, Thomas

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

Maher, Bill

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

Brown, Les

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Frankl, Viktor E.

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

Bible

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

Baluch, Joy

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Quayle, Dan

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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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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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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Whatever happens, take responsibility.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Moliere

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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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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

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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

Briscoe, Stuart