Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

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

- Warhol, Andy

Best Quotes about Responsibility

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

Robertson, Walter S.

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

Bach, Richard

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

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

Browne, Harry

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

Maher, Bill

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

Baluch, Joy

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Winkler, Henry

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Each is responsible for his own actions.

Hunt, H. L.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

James, Cyril

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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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

Aristotle

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

Moliere

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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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Good men prefer to be accountable.

Edwardes, Michael

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

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander

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

Tecumseh

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

Bible

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Brown, Les

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Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Orwell, George

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

Powell, John Enoch

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

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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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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