Motivational Quotes

Responsibility

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

- Wilson, Woodrow T.

Best Quotes about Responsibility

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

Gordimer, Nadine

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

Winkler, Henry

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

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

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

Brecht, Bertolt

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

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

Didion, Joan

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

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

Newman, Mildred

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

Hunt, Roy L.

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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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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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Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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

Moliere

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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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All business depends upon men fulfilling their responsibilities.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Browne, Harry

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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

Milgram, Stanley

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

Warhol, Andy

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

Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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

31.

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

Tecumseh

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Responsibility walks hand in hand with capacity and power.

Holland, Josiah Gilbert

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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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Responsibility is the price of greatness.

Churchill, Winston

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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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If you load responsibility on a man unworthy of it he will always betray himself.

Heckscher, August

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Brown, Les

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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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Accountability breeds response-ability.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried.

Proverb

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

Briscoe, Stuart

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

Powell, John Enoch

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We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Hay, Louise L.

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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 superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

Shula, Don